Easier said than done! This is only a test server, so we don't have backups set up, but there is a lot of data there. We can tolerate disk failure (actually, there is a hardware RAID controller, but it looks to all installed OSes like a single disk), but someone accidentally hitting "yes" to erase all disks might lead to some rather upset people.
> You might want to make sure you have a backup of all your data before you continue. > One method I'm testing is: I setup SmartOS in a VM and used zfs send to migrate all the zones/datasets into a 'zones' pool that I manually created. Then fixed the /zones/usbkey/config to use the correct MAC On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 9:27 PM, Avi Deitcher <[email protected]> wrote: > I followed Nahum's previous email suggestion, went through the standard > install process, entered network, etc. information. > > When it wanted to install a zpool on my entire c0t0d0, I went manual, > created the zpool 'zones' on just the partitions I wanted, then exited the > shell. > > I got the standard confirmation screen (Net, MAC, DNS, Hostname, NTP, > etc.), but it also says "all data on the disks will be erased." > > How do I ensure that it is going to wipe out only the data on the slices > provided to the zpool 'zones', and not the entire disk? > > Lots of data on lots of partitions that I do not want it to ruin.... > > Thanks in advance. > > -- > Avi Deitcher > Follow me http://twitter.com/avideitcher > Read me http://blog.atomicinc.com > -- Avi Deitcher [email protected] Follow me http://twitter.com/avideitcher Read me http://blog.atomicinc.com ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
