From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Apr 9 15:08:00 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01354B08A31 for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2016 15:07:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B979E173D for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2016 15:07:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from kabini1.local (user-24-214-48-39.knology.net [24.214.48.39]) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id u39F7opK025023 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2016 10:07:51 -0500 Subject: Re: Desktop reconfig To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <5709129B.8070508@columbus.rr.com> From: "William A. Mahaffey III" Message-ID: <57091AC6.1010600@hiwaay.net> Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2016 10:13:20 -0453.75 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5709129B.8070508@columbus.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2016 15:08:00 -0000 On 04/09/16 09:39, Baho Utot wrote: > I want to reconfigure my desktop. I want to move it from 10.1 to 11, > I am using 11-CURRENT now > I would like to move it to ZFS raidz1 (four drives). > > Here is the current setup: > Win7 and freebsd 10.1 on the first hard drive ada0 > > $ mount > /dev/ada0s3a on / (ufs, local, noatime) > devfs on /dev (devfs, local, multilabel) > /dev/ada1p2 on /usr/home (ufs, local, noatime) > linprocfs on /compat/linux/proc (linprocfs, local) > /dev/ada1p3 on /tmp (ufs, local, noatime, soft-updates) > fdescfs on /dev/fd (fdescfs) > > $ gpart show > => 63 976773105 ada0 MBR (466G) > 63 1985 - free - (993K) > 2048 204800 1 ntfs (100M) > 206848 614195200 2 ntfs (293G) > 614402048 34 - free - (17K) > 614402082 362371023 3 freebsd [active] (173G) > 976773105 63 - free - (32K) > > => 0 362371023 ada0s3 BSD (173G) > 0 314572800 1 freebsd-ufs (150G) > 314572800 47798222 2 freebsd-swap (23G) > 362371022 1 - free - (512B) > > => 34 5860533101 ada1 GPT (2.7T) > 34 2014 - free - (1.0M) > 2048 1953122304 1 ms-basic-data (931G) > 1953124352 1048576000 2 freebsd-ufs (500G) > 3001700352 8388608 3 freebsd-ufs (4.0G) > 3010088960 2850444175 - free - (1.3T) > > New setup will have freebsd on raidz with Win7 on the SSD only. > > Can I install the four drives for the raidz, configure and install > freebsd then remove ada1 when I have it all working? or should I > remove ada1 then install the raidz drives install then reinstall ada1 > and the pull everything over? > > Will the installer handle installing root to zfs raidz? or will I have > to wing it? > > Going for a clean install and synth to do the ports. > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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" > See https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS, particularly section 1.2.5, it will answer most of your questions. I have 2 machines running w/ FreeBSD 9.3 on ZFS filesystems (unmirrored pools, not RAIDZ's, but it isn't supposed to make any difference) & everything works AOK. I followed section 1.2.5 religiously & all went well. Some of your specific questions depend on your mobo hardware, w/ a few more details (how many (SATA ? IDE ?) HDD slots on the mobo, for example) & the list could provide more help. What I *think* you want to do is quite feasible, you won't be winging it. $0.02, no more, no less. Have a good one. -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.