[ug-bosug] What is the /second_root slice? How do i get rid of it?

[Moinak Ghosh]

Manish Chakravarty wrote:
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> On Feb 8, 2008 1:59 PM, Moinak Ghosh <Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com 
> <mailto:Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com>> wrote:
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>     Manish Chakravarty wrote:
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>     >     > No I did not  have data on my second_root.
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>     >     > I will try it!
>     >       mount -F ufs /dev/dsk/c2t0d0s7 /export/home
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>     >       Note correction: 's7' instead of 's4'
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>     > It worked!
>     > Moinak, thank you so much!
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>       Now take a backup and repeat the zpool/zfs creation process.
>       After you have created the zpool create your home dir back
>       as I mentioned earlier and extract from your backup.
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> Yup. I just did it.  All my data is on zfs now
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>       Using ZFS does speed up your disk access and builds.
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> Is there a noticeable speed increase even for laptops?

   Yep.

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> Secondly, would it be possible to put / on ZFS somehow?
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   ZFS root support will get integrated very soon. At present only
   Indiana offers ZFS root. There are some manual steps to get
   ZFS root but I recommend to wait for the official release on Solaris
   Express.

Regards,
Moinak.