Mirror disk slice or partition problem

Hi ,
I recently installed S11 from the GUI installer.
On a 1Tbyte disk I installed S11 on a 16G partition or slice (I dont know what the GUI installer does)
Later I added another 16G partition + 880G partition, with the format->fdisk tool.
The 880G partition is used for a pool called home2p, the extra 16G partition is a spare.
All on disk c0t0d0.
Later I added another 1Tbyte disk to make a mirror.
I formatted the disk with format->fdisk and used the same numbers as c0t0d0.
My aim is a fault tolerant mirror.
But I ended with this strange situation:
zpool status rpool
pool: rpool
state: ONLINE
scan: resilvered 246K in 0h0m with 0 errors on Tue Jun 12 17:08:05 2012
config:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
rpool ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0
c3t0d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0
c3t2d0p0 ONLINE 0 0 0
zpool status home2p
pool: home2p
state: ONLINE
scan: resilvered 144G in 0h40m with 0 errors on Tue Jun 12 16:53:36 2012
config:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
home2p ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0
c3t0d0p3 ONLINE 0 0 0
c3t2d0p3 ONLINE 0 0 0
The rpool consists of c3t0s0 and c3t2p0 !
When I look with fdisk the partition numbers are equal (offsets an sizes).
It looks like the c3t0s0 which is created by the GUI installer is different from what I created
with format->fdisk.
So something seems to be wrong here, can this still be corrected ,
or do I have to reinstall everything?
I also need a GRUB loader on c3t2d0p0 to boot from the second disk,
how must I do that? if possible at all in this situation.
Edited by: 916641 on Jun 12, 2012 11:53 AM
Edited by: 916641 on Jun 12, 2012 11:54 AM

It's not clear from your post whether you're aware that for x86, Solaris numbers the MBR 'partition table' entries as devices c?t?d?p0 (whole disk) and then p1-4 (the partitions). Ie. 'ls -lrt /dev/[r]dsk/c?t?d?p?', etc.
Any partition/s allocated to Solaris will be further sliced using a VTOC. Hence I'd expect your c3t0d0p0 to have a VTOC (therefore the installer used 'c3t0d0s0' for the rpool. Ie. /dev/[r]dsk/c?t?d?s?, etc.
I expect you need to create the matching partition on the added device partition (c3t2d0p0) which is in the rpool and then create a VTOC with the 'fmthard' command (search prtvtoc fmthard to find example).
There after the 'c3t2d0s0' device should be available to be added to the rpool mirror.
Use 'iostat -En' to identify the disks, then the command 'fdisk -W - /dev/rdsk/c3t?d0p0' to show the disk partition table allocations and 'prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c3t?d0p?' to establish the VTOC allocations. Note the ? should be substituted appropriately with your device numbering.
When your devices are set up correctly you can use the "expected s" device names with the 'zpool attach' ... then take a look at this blog entry http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/7394-Migrating-your-notebook-from-a-smaller-to-a-larger-disk.html to cater for the 'zpool spilt' and GRUB component (for really neat -simple and quick, disaster recovery).
Note there is also 'gparted' available with S11 to check the layout of the x86 partition table (confirm what fdisk is reporting).

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i have mac 13" laptop, which i am trying to put 500 gb hdd. plese i need some suggestion, which way to do.
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ashesg1991 wrote:
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