[indiana-discuss] ??: Re: ZFS Problem

[Jan Damborsky]

Hi John,

you are welcome.

Yes, any procedure which helps to wipe out original
Solaris VTOC can be used as workaround in this case :-)

Thank you,
Jan


Qingye Jiang (John) wrote:
> Hi Jan,
>
> Thank you so much for the explaination. Our solution was interesting. Boot to windows, under 'control panel -> system management -> disk management', delete the solaris partition, re-create an ntfs partition with that space, format it, then delete it, then create an empty main partition. Then boot the live cd and install os 2008.05 onto that partition. It works.
>
> Thank you so much.
>
> John via Cell Phone
>
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> ???:  "jan damborsky" <Jan.Damborsky at Sun.COM>
> ???:   "Qingye Jiang (John)" <John.Jiang at Sun.COM>
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> ????:  08-6-13 21:45
> ??:   Re: [indiana-discuss] ZFS Problem
>
> Hi John,
>
> you are hitting existing problem in fdisk(1M) command (installer uses
> fdisk(1M) for creating Solaris2 partition) - if Solaris2 partition starts
> after 4GiB, it can't be resized - please see release notes for details
> (bug 6690194):
>
> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/resources/rn3/
>
> The fix for this issue was delivered into build 90:
> http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6690194
>
> As a possible solutions for this problem you might pick up fdisk(1M)
> command from build 90 and manually delete/recreate Solaris2 partition,
> then installer would use right partition size.
>
> Thank you,
> Jan
>
>
> Qingye Jiang (John) wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am installing OS 2008.05 onto a lenovo laptop with 70 GB of HD space. 
>> Originally I have NTFS (10 GB), Solaris (20 GB), and FAT32 (40GB). After 
>> installing OS 2008.05 I found that I need more space, so I went back to 
>> Windows and deleted Solaris (20 GB) and FAT32 (40 GB), then create an 
>> empty partition of 60 GB for OS 2008.05.  The installation program did 
>> pickup the 60 GB participation and installed OS 2008.05 onto it without 
>> any complain. However, after I boot into the system it has only 20 GB of 
>> disk space -- the additional 40 GB was gone!
>>
>> Actually this happened to several machines in our team. It is a 
>> reproducible bug! You install OS 2008.05 once, and it remembers how big 
>> your partition was, and continues to use that size even though it has 
>> been changed!
>>
>> Solutions?
>>
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