From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 4 16:06:57 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44AE8106566C for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 16:06:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from merlyn@stonehenge.com) Received: from blue.stonehenge.com (blue.stonehenge.com [209.223.236.162]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 267CD8FC18 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 16:06:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by blue.stonehenge.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id F11DF1DE320; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 07:44:15 -0800 (PST) To: matt@webcontracts.co.uk References: <5f2fd5523c5fb10e82e49e7250430ab7.squirrel@www.webcontracts.co.uk> From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) x-mayan-date: Long count = 12.19.17.2.17; tzolkin = 8 Caban; haab = 15 Kayab Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:44:15 -0800 In-Reply-To: <5f2fd5523c5fb10e82e49e7250430ab7.squirrel@www.webcontracts.co.uk> (Matthew Law's message of "Thu, 4 Mar 2010 11:53:56 -0000") Message-ID: <86pr3k852o.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.4 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Root on ZFS X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:06:57 -0000 >>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Law writes: Matthew> I am following this wiki page to move to zfs root: Matthew> http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSOnRoot If you're running RELEASE-8 or later, I've gotten this to work just fine: http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot Currently live on two slices at arpnetworks.com with that. The trickiest part is that Arp installs an existing system on the disk, and the instructions there don't tell how to remove it. :( I can't remember the workaround, but someone in IRC told me. ("gpart destroy" didn't work, because it said "already in use") -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion