Replacing all disks in zroot
Mike Clarke
jmc-freebsd2 at milibyte.co.uk
Sat Sep 17 16:27:28 UTC 2016
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
<http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/819-5461/githb/>
> 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
<https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/Mirror>. Since you already have
a running system you shouldn't need to boot from the install DVD,
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Mike Clarke
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