Hi Steve, Couple of options.
Create a new boot environment on the SSD, and this will copy the data over. Or zfs send -R rp...@backup | zfs recv altpool I'd use the alt boot environment, rather than the send and receive. Cheers, -Mark. On 19/09/2010, at 5:37 PM, Steve Arkley wrote: > Hello folks, > > I ordered a bunch of 128Gb SSD's the other day, placed 2 in PC, another in a > windoz laptop and I thought I'd place one in my opensolaris laptop, should be > straightforward or so I thought. > > The problem I seem to be running into is that the partition the rpool is on > is 130Gb, SSD once sliced up is only about 120Gb. > > I pulled the main disk from the latop and put it in a caddy, put the new ssd > in the drive bay and booted from cdrom. > > I imported the rpool and created an altpool on the ssd drive. > > zfs pool list shows both pools. > altpool size 119G avail 119G > rpool size 130G used 70G > > I created a snapshot of the rpool and tried to send it to the other disk but > it fails with file too large. > > zfs send -R rp...@backup > altpool > warning: cannot send 'rpool/bu...@backup': file too large. > > is there anyway to get the data over onto the other drive at all? > > Thanks Steve. > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
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