[OmniOS-discuss] Moving The Root Pool

[Andre Kruger]

On 2017/02/10 16:26, Andre Kruger wrote:
> I am running r151018.
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> The SSD is bigger that the HDD and I use USB installation media.
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>
> On 2017/02/10 16:05, Dan McDonald wrote:
>>> On Feb 10, 2017, at 2:44 AM, Andre Kruger<andre at ak47.co.za>  wrote:
>>>
>>> I have a running OmniOS system that boots from HDD but I would like to boot the machine from SSD. I first pondered if I could just create an image, using CloneZilla, of the rpool disk and then restore that image again onto the SSD.
>> I hadn't heard of clonezilla until just now.
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>>> I am not sure if that is an acceptable method?
>> The problem with that is your disk device will be under a different name, and this confuses the illumos boot system a bit.
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>>> I know the windows community warns against this practice. You can clone from HDD to HDD or SSD to SSD, but I have read many reports of windows users experiencing slow performance when cloning from HDD to SSD.
>> I have no idea why that would be the case, but regardless...
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>>> Would OmniOS suffer the same performance problems if cloning from HDD to SSD?
>> ... I can't say for sure.
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>>> If it will, would this procedure that I found on the OpenIndiana Wiki be valid without much tweaking?
>>>
>>> https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/How+to+migrate+the+root+pool
>> That article is a bit old.
>>
>> I've some questions that will help me give better advice.  There are no wrong answers here, just be as accurate as you can:
>>
>> - Which revision of OmniOS are you running?
>> - Is your new SSD the same or greater size than the HD you have now?
>> - Do you have a CD/DVD or USB installer media?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dan
>>
>

Shall I consider the matter dead?
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