ZFS as / filesystem on 7.0 ?
Barry Pederson
bp at barryp.org
Fri Feb 29 23:00:58 UTC 2008
Forrest Aldrich wrote:
> Thank you for the replies. It seems that / and/or at least /boot should
> remain UFS/UFS2 and the rest of the system ZFS, if so desired.
>
> I wonder if it's possible to convert a filesystem from UFS/2 to ZFS ;-)
> Probably not without another disk nearby to mirror and copy back the
> content.
No conversion - I ended up installing on UFS on one disk, creating a ZFS
pool on a second disk, and then using sysutils/cpdup from ports to clone
the install onto one or more ZFS filesystems.
Barry
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