Everything (but /boot) on ZFS - trouble

[Thomas Backman]

On Jul 5, 2007, at 9:49 PM, Craig Boston wrote:

> Where did you create the symlink?  It should be in your ZFS root
> partition, which the loader shouldn't know anything about.
>
>> Also, I don't know how to get my stuff over to ZFS - singleuser and
>> cp -Rp?
>
> I tend to end up using
>
> tar -cf - . | tar -C /destination -xf -
>
> to preserve hard links (important so /rescue doesn't end up huge), but
> others prefer cpio.  Since your source is a UFS partition, dump/ 
> restore
> may also be a good option.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Craig
>
Thanks, it did help! It's working like a charm now. I'm not sure, but  
I think I
missed putting the symlink on the ZFS root the first time around.

/Thomas