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
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>



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