A Darren Dunham wrote:
On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 09:59:05AM +0000, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
It can be done by careful use of fdisk (with some risk of blowing away
the data if you get it wrong), but I've seen other email threads here
that indicate ZFS then won't mount the pool, because the two labels at
the end of the partition can't be found anymore (having moved where the
end of the partition is).
I don't think that would be a problem. When I've tried it, as long as
the first two labels are found, it creates the labels at the end of the
disk. Admittedly, I've never tried it with a root pool.
You could create a separate zpool in the spare fdisk partition. Not good
for performance, but probably fine for infrequently accessed data.
I don't think the second fdisk partition can be used. The system
doesn't like to have multiple "Solaris" partitions.
Make sure it isn't a Solaris partition (pick some partition type which
is going to be meaningless to all the OS's installed on the system, so
they don't try to access it). Then you can use it as above.
--
Andrew
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