Re: Zpool surgery

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From: "Ulrich Sp=F6rlein" <uqs@FreeBSD.org>

> I have a slight problem with transplanting a zpool, maybe this is not
> possible the way I like to do it, maybe I need to fuzz some
> identifiers...
>
> I want to transplant my old zpool tank from a 1TB drive to a new 2TB
> drive, but *not* use dd(1) or any other cloning mechanism, as the pool
> was very full very often and is surely severely fragmented.
>

Cant you just drop the disk in the original machine, set it as a mirror
then once the mirror process has completed break the mirror and remove
the 1TB disk.

If this is a boot disk don't forget to set the boot block as well.

    Regards
    Steve =

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