From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 22 20:18:14 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B61EC5B1 for ; Sat, 22 Feb 2014 20:18:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from new1-smtp.messagingengine.com (new1-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.221]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 84B011954 for ; Sat, 22 Feb 2014 20:18:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute3.internal (compute3.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.43]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C0032BD for ; Sat, 22 Feb 2014 15:11:09 -0500 (EST) Received: from web4 ([10.202.2.214]) by compute3.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 22 Feb 2014 15:11:10 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=f-m.fm; h= message-id:from:to:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding :content-type:subject:date; s=mesmtp; bh=A2/r5QMOOID87YM/C7/JkU/ GNz0=; b=Q0UoMV53SWgFv7lYeNEUiLqza8qhT253uoAvJXFIAhMUxNyqZcEg45n h3iXn4G1h/fCj7dPuQ+EbT2kkNBZEJfTEj9EGH/Mve1VnJWBGuD0t2eAI3IseQRK 7PUIozEtQ8DriI/UzNGfrOdHfez4bV26YLYi3gXYVYI9vUHLhw3s= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=message-id:from:to:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:content-type:subject:date; s=smtpout; bh=A2/r5QMOOID87YM/C7/JkU/GNz0=; b=qrYPiv+d+HyC9h7Kd1qyYRDatfcY cBuMq8ZiezjvxC10vYjc4OOo0yM+bJCh5CSGOHvizm24s0I1VVF6LjrVwl6cxNL3 DQJD+9qTCsNj2Lar9TJAYOk2eaOHZeAZ+n67Pb8Z/eH9yj3jqjJCEOFCdB7eEWqC F5VzUY6joDqZbt4= Received: by web4.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix, from userid 99) id 8AD06100D04; Sat, 22 Feb 2014 15:11:09 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1393099869.20690.86558389.02245411@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-Sasl-Enc: qYdyelEFfhap6YKmAgjbcDQ5Nl03WPs6E0j9osc809YO 1393099869 From: Ross Penner To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface - ajax-4527a23f Subject: Fresh installation on top of a old system in ZFS Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 12:11:09 -0800 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 20:18:14 -0000 I'm hoping to get some guidance on the best way to create a fresh FreeBSD install using my existing drives partitioned with ZFS. The old set up is with two drives of different sizes. The smaller one is mirrored with a partition of equal size on the larger drive to create one pool which is the root and boot partition. A second pool is made of the remaining space on the larger drive mounted at /tank/ I booted the USB image of FreeBSD 10 and I couldn't see an obvious way to use my old partitions as the base for the new system. Any advice that could be offered would be really appreciated! Thank you in advance.