Resize a ldom zdisk volume

Hi,
I create a zdisk volume on a T5220 (solaris 11) and installed a solaris10 in a ldom. The zdisk size is 50G.
After some zone migration inside the ldom, my zdisk is a bit short and I want to increase to 60G.
I modified the zdisk size where ldom is installed : zfs set volsize=60G dpool/ldom_sol10
When I check the size on solaris 10 , iostat returns the good new size but the format command see always 50G
[root@t5222_ldom_sol10]:$ iostat -En
c0d0             Soft Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0 Protocol Errors: 0
Vendor: SUN Product: VDSK Size: 64.42GB <64424509440 bytes>
[root@t5222_ldom_sol10]:$ format
Searching for disks...done
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
        0. c0d0 <SUN-DiskImage-50GB cyl 1420 alt 2 hd 96 sec 768>
           /virtual-devices@100/channel-devices@200/disk@0
Is it possible to resize a zdisk volume where a ldom is installed ?
Thanks in advance.
frbo

R81Z3 wrote:
In my opinion ZFS likes disks, so using partitions is asking for problems, I am no ZFS expert but ZFS loves memory, and if your system does not have much say less then 8gb you are asking for problems. Also most folks who are serious about ZFS will use ECC memory as that provides data integrity as if your memory does errors ZFS can't fix it but assumes it is correct. Like they say garbage in garbage out. I have had ZFS on a BSD system and it works had no issues but it was a complete disk, and had at least 8gb of memory but I made sure I had backups of important files just to avoid the CRC errors that bad memory can give you.
You an add and remove pools but ZFS assumes a pool is a disk, and you have to see the documentation for how to do it properly. But I would just use another disk and solve the problem disks are cheap and honestly ZFS loves disks not partitions.
I have a roughly 2g ram system and I am running into no problems. Not lagging either, I am having better expierence with ZFS than other FS's. To the OP, I have read somewhere about adding another disk and ZFS will expand and include that disk as well, but you would need to look into that. I am no ZFS expert by no means. I just enjoy using it.
Also I have read that ZFS doesn't support seperate partitions for swap, I use a ZFS created swap volume.
Last edited by ndowens04 (2013-09-07 02:16:23)

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Try Use Terminal to limit Time Machine sparcebundle size on timecapsule,
should work to limit Time Machine backup size on any NAS or external disk (or not...)
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Regards

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Historically, there have been cloning problems with ThinkPads when the target drive wasn't actually installed when it was written. Something to do with the way BIOS addresses the drives. This may not be a problem with newer machines, but ti's generally recommended.
Z.
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Limiting Time Machine backup size onto external drive

I have a 6TB RAID LaCie external drive that I would like to use with Time Machine. My mac has a 1TB HD which is not full. I do not want Time Machine to fill up my external drive with multiple backups. Is there some way to limit how much space Time Machine will use on an external drive? My understanding is that Time Machine will fill up the drive completely, then start overwriting the oldest files.
I do not think that I could partition the drive. But I am not sure how to do that, if it works with mac, and if I can do it now without reformating the drives. I am looking to see if there is a solution on the Time Machine software side.

Try Use Terminal to limit Time Machine sparcebundle size on timecapsule,
should work to limit Time Machine backup size on any NAS or external disk (or not...)
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine MaxSize500000
to return to ilimited
sudo defaults delete /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine MaxSize
if you want to reclame deleted files space shrink it use
hdiutil resize -size 500g -shrinkonly /Volumes/TimeMachineYOURNAME/YOURNAME.sparsebundle/
Regards

Do I -need- to install Vista security updates? A few other q's as well..

I'm just wondering how important security updates are if I don't plan on downloading anything on Vista, and if not having security on Vista will leave me vulnerable even when on OSX?
Basically, the problem I'm stuck in is that I didn't partition enough space to install ALL the updates while leaving enough room for applications I needed. If security IS important, is there a way to make the partition larger without backuping / erasing and going through the entire process again?
Also, my last question is: I know macs aren't susceptible to Windows viruses, if I download something that has a virus on OSX, now that I have Vista boot camp does it make it susceptible?

Security updates for Windows are critical, as the majority of Web attacks "in the wild" target Windows itself. On the Mac OS side, things are a little less "busy", but security is equally as important. Apple tends to issue fixes in big roll-ups (by doing "point releases" such as 10.5.6 or issuing something like "Security Update 2008-008" in between. Further, Apple has taken to a policy of patching only the two most current revisions of the OS (Leopard and Tiger at present). Still, this is one area in which you, the user, should make every effort to stay current.
That said, Windows malware can't touch the Mac OS, because Windows and Mac OS use different means of executing programs. Mac OS also has other protections that Vista in particular is only now incorporating into itself, such as requesting authorization before running a program. (XP also has this, but to a much more limited degree).
So, even if you manage to pick up a nasty virus, it will just sit around doing nothing in Mac OS. But, that doesn't mean the virus has no potential to infect a Windows machine. Any mindful Mac user should not send files s/he suspects may be infected, for when a Windows user gets them, it's "game over" should the file be opened.
You can use TwoCanoes' [Winclone|http://www.twocanoes.com/winclone] to resize the Boot Camp volume if you believe you didn't allocate enough space.
Nate

I am trying to resize disk space on parallels 6 for windows XP under configure Hardrive and I get the error resizing failed unable to resize last volume the file system of this volume might be damaged or not supported? I am on a Mac using Parallels 6

I have been trying to increase my disk space for windows xp on my Imac and I am running parallels 6. before opening windows I go into configure in parallels and open the hard drive and try to move the allotted disk space from 32 gig to 64 or any other increased gig and then apply and I get the error message: resizing failed unable to resize last volume. The file system of this volume might be damaged or not supported. How do I increase the size?? I just also did a disk repair utility with Apple on the Apple side of my IMAC. Please Help!! I had uninstalled SQL server on the windows side and needed to uncompress files to install this and then I ran short on disk space.

This sounds to me that your Parallels XP file system is corrupted and not the OSX file system.
Have you checked the XP file system while running the Parallels XP yet ?
However, it would be better to ask such question in the Parallels Forum http://forum.parallels.com/
Stefan

Resize a ldom zdisk volume

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