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Old 09-13-2013
Shrinking zpool
Hello experts,

I have a solaris 10 (SunOS 5.10 Generic_148888-05 sun4u sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise) that by mistake I added a second san space of 700g to the pool. the whole pool is now 1.2T and, I need to take the space away from the pool and, make the pool 700g total. this is live oracle filesystem. I have not done any zfs shrinking of sort (I know you can not do this). Here is my zpool status

Code:
# zpool status DLMS01Cpool
  pool: DLMS01Cpool
 state: ONLINE
status: The pool is formatted using an older on-disk format.  The pool can
        still be used, but some features are unavailable.
action: Upgrade the pool using 'zpool upgrade'.  Once this is done, the
        pool will no longer be accessible on older software versions.
 scan: resilvered 392G in 2h36m with 0 errors on Thu Apr 19 20:08:46 2012
config:

        NAME                     STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        DLMS01Cpool              ONLINE       0     0     0
          c3t50002AC17D9D072Bd0  ONLINE       0     0     0
          c3t50002AC21226072Bd0  ONLINE       0     0     0

errors: No known data errors

what are my best options? Can you give me the commands please?
Last edited by Scott; 09-13-2013 at 01:10 PM.. Reason: Use code tags, please...
# 2  
Old 09-13-2013
You can't shrink a zpool. You need to create a new zpool and copy the data to it. Then delete the old zpool. Your database should be turned off when your doing this.
# 3  
Old 09-13-2013
Thanks, DustinT. If I create a new pool do I need to reboot the zone in order for zone to see the new pool?
# 4  
Old 09-13-2013
No reboot is required. You'll probably want to read up on zoneadm to understand how to mount the zpool so it's visible by the zone.
# 5  
Old 09-13-2013
disregard this..
Last edited by os2mac; 09-13-2013 at 03:24 PM.. Reason: I'm an idiot
# 6  
Old 09-13-2013
I was talking about rebooting non-global zone not global zone. If I add the new-temp-pool to the global-zone and then, add the temp-FS to NG as lofs without rebooting the NG to pick up the new FS. Am I not correct? Or maybe not. ignore please.
Last edited by afadaghi; 09-13-2013 at 05:22 PM..
# 7  
Old 09-14-2013
I'm not sure what you said there but I did catch the 'ignore this' part... post back if you have more questions, ok?
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