Re: [zfs-discuss] ata - sata quustion

2009-06-12 Thread dick hoogendijk
casper@sun.com wrote: I boot my OpenSolaris 2009.06 system off ONE ata drive. I want to change that to a mirrored boot from two SATA drives. Is it possible to FIRST make a mirror of the existing ata drive PLUS one new sata drive and after resilvering, remove the ata drive and replace it

Re: [zfs-discuss] ata - sata quustion

2009-06-12 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Dick, I've rewritten the instructions for relabeling/repartitioning a disk that is intended for the root pool, here: http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Troubleshooting_Guide#Replacing.2FRelabeling_the_Root_Pool_Disk Generally, the format utility will show you the size of the

[zfs-discuss] ata - sata quustion

2009-06-10 Thread dick hoogendijk
I boot my OpenSolaris 2009.06 system off ONE ata drive. I want to change that to a mirrored boot from two SATA drives. Is it possible to FIRST make a mirror of the existing ata drive PLUS one new sata drive and after resilvering, remove the ata drive and replace it with another (second) SATA one?

Re: [zfs-discuss] ata - sata quustion

2009-06-10 Thread James C. McPherson
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:24:31 +0200 dick hoogendijk d...@nagual.nl wrote: I boot my OpenSolaris 2009.06 system off ONE ata drive. I want to change that to a mirrored boot from two SATA drives. Is it possible to FIRST make a mirror of the existing ata drive PLUS one new sata drive and after

Re: [zfs-discuss] ata - sata quustion

2009-06-10 Thread Casper . Dik
I boot my OpenSolaris 2009.06 system off ONE ata drive. I want to change that to a mirrored boot from two SATA drives. Is it possible to FIRST make a mirror of the existing ata drive PLUS one new sata drive and after resilvering, remove the ata drive and replace it with another (second) SATA

Re: [zfs-discuss] ata - sata quustion

2009-06-10 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:52:37 +0200 casper@sun.com wrote: make sure you make the appropriate Solaris FDISK partition and don't use an EFI label (can't boot those). Thank you Casper (and James too). This EFI label is a nice reminder. Installing grub is second nature ;-) -- Dick Hoogendijk