zfsOnRoot

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2016-Mar-31 06:49:40 +0300, Sami Halabi <sodynet1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>The box has a single freebsd-ufs / partition on the almost the whole disk
>beside a small swap partiotion.
>
>is there a known way to convert to zfs whithout installing from media?

You can't do an in-place conversion of UFS to ZFS - you'll need to dump
your UFS somewhere, build a ZFS root and restore the backup.  Note that
restore(8) is completely userland so you can use dump/restore.

If your used space is small enough, you might be able to use the swap
partition to store the backup.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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