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Am 22.01.2014 10:01, schrieb Chris Stankevitz: |
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> Hello, |
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> My / (root) lives on /dev/sdb1. My /dev/sda has no partitions and no data |
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> except for what I presume is the mbr written by lilo. [history: sdb is an |
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> SSD and I never wanted to use the slow sda] |
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> I have been playing with ZFS on a USB drive and I am ready to create a |
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> zpool on /dev/sda. |
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> ZFS recommends that I give it the entire drive (partitioning discouraged). |
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> In this case I hesitate to give ZFS my entire drive as I worry ZFS will |
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> clobber my MBR rendering my system unbootable. |
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> Are my fears warranted? If so, what should I do about it? If you |
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> recommend that I partition sda, what parameters do I used to avoid a |
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> clobber? |
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I don't know if creating a ZFS volume on /dev/sda kill break your mbr. |
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But why don't you install lilo on /dev/sdb ? |
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You change change the boot order in BIOS after that. |
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