Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 20:29:02 +0200 From: Johan Hendriks <joh.hendriks@gmail.com> To: Malcolm Matalka <mmatalka@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Replacing all disks in zroot Message-ID: <b3e33ce7-0218-5815-1100-96eb6c86b226@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <861t0ik43m.fsf@gmail.com> References: <861t0ik43m.fsf@gmail.com>
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Op 17/09/16 om 16:12 schreef Malcolm Matalka: > Hello, > > Right now I have a ZFS on root on FreeBSD 10.3. Currently I only have 1 > disk in zroot and it's too small. So I would like to do the following > thing, but I'm not sure if I need to do some special work to make the > new setup bootable. > > 1. Bought 2 new, larger HDs. > > 2. Going to add one of them to the existing disk as a mirror and let it > resilver. > > 3. Replace the small drive with the second drive I bought, removing the > smaller drive. > > As I understand it, after this I will have the larger capacity, > mirrored. But will this be bootable? Do I have to do something else to > copy the boot setup over? > > Thanks, > /Malcolm > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" That should do the trick, like Mike said, you will need a boot partition and a swap partition. Also use the right command with zpool. So do not use add but ATTACH, this way you create a mirror. If you add a disk , your pool is then a pool with two vdevs without any redendency. regards Johan
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