From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Sep 17 16:27:28 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 94BD3BDE382 for ; Sat, 17 Sep 2016 16:27:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from avasout08.plus.net (avasout08.plus.net [212.159.14.20]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "Bizanga Labs SMTP Client Certificate", Issuer "Bizanga Labs CA" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2FADA9A3 for ; Sat, 17 Sep 2016 16:27:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from curlew.milibyte.co.uk ([80.229.31.82]) by avasout08 with smtp id kgTP1t0061mJoLY01gTQQ8; Sat, 17 Sep 2016 17:27:25 +0100 X-CM-Score: 0.00 X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=Y6S6iVWN c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=cd0K7rcWwnZFf6xQxRobyA==:117 a=cd0K7rcWwnZFf6xQxRobyA==:17 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=GW1xBdLrtEIA:10 a=yPCof4ZbAAAA:8 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=leq2kcVLlus1RVjZ134A:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=2lfDSYhZ3Z6b8uxcDO-Z:22 a=IjZwj45LgO3ly-622nXo:22 Received: from curlew.lan ([192.168.1.13] helo=milibyte.co.uk) by curlew.milibyte.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1blISY-0001gY-OS; Sat, 17 Sep 2016 17:27:23 +0100 From: Mike Clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Malcolm Matalka Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2016 17:26:08 +0100 Message-ID: <2431379.KBGJRHb7f7@curlew.lan> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (FreeBSD/10.3-RELEASE-p7; KDE/4.14.10; amd64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <861t0ik43m.fsf@gmail.com> References: <861t0ik43m.fsf@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.1.13 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on curlew.lan X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 Subject: Re: Replacing all disks in zroot Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on curlew.milibyte.co.uk) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2016 16:27:28 -0000 On Saturday 17 Sep 2016 14:12:13 Malcolm Matalka wrote: > As I understand it, after this I will have the larger capacity, > mirrored. You'll need to issue a "zpool autoexpand on poolname" command before the extra space can be utilised. There's an example at > But will this be bootable? Do I have to do something else to > copy the boot setup over? You'll need to create a small boot partition on each disk and install bootcode onto it as described in the first few steps of . Since you already have a running system you shouldn't need to boot from the install DVD, -- Mike Clarke