During installation, the installation created default ZFS filesystems, like the dump and swap locations.
I want to change the blocksize of the /dump and /swap locations and make them ZFS volumes.
The ZFS system is on a zpool called rpool
I was able to do a zfs destroy on /rpool/dump and then create another dump location with the proper options: zfs create -b 131072 -V 1024m rpool/dump
I cannot destroy /rpool/swap though. It tells me that the ...dataset is busy. I did some investigating and found that I have to do a dumpadm but that doesn't work either:
>dumpadm -d swap
dumpadm: no swap devices could be configured as the dump device
How can I destroy the /rpool/swap directory and then create another swap directory and make it a volume with a particular blocksize? Do I rename the swap location to something else?
During installation, the installation created default ZFS filesystems, like the dump and swap locations.
I want to change the blocksize of the /dump and /swap locations
Why ? What do you expect with changing the dump and swap blocksizes ?
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and make them ZFS volumes.
They are already ZFS volumes, not filesystems.
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I was able to do a zfs destroy on /rpool/dump and then create another dump location with the proper options: zfs create -b 131072 -V 1024m rpool/dump
I bet it was initially created with the same options. What says
"zpool history -il | grep dump" ?
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I cannot destroy /rpool/swap though. It tells me that the ...dataset is busy. I did some investigating and found that I have to do a dumpadm
Your investigation failed, dumpadm has no relationship with the swap, especially when on ZFS.
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but that doesn't work either:
>dumpadm -d swap
dumpadm: no swap devices could be configured as the dump device
How can I destroy the /rpool/swap directory and then create another swap directory and make it a volume with a particular blocksize? Do I rename the swap location to something else?
You don't remove swap with the dumpadm command but with the swap one:
Why ? What do you expect with changing the dump and swap blocksizes ?
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Originally Posted by sqa777
I am running OpenSolaris v5.11
During installation, the installation created default ZFS filesystems, like the dump and swap locations.
I want to change the blocksize of the /dump and /swap locations
I want to change the volume size so I can recreate a customer environment.
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Originally Posted by jlliagre
I bet it was initially created with the same options. What says
"zpool history -il | grep dump" ?
zpool history -il | grep dump
2009-01-07.01:20:03 zfs create -b 131072 -V 8191m rpool/dump [user root on opensolaris:global]
2009-01-15.17:00:19 zfs destroy rpool/dump [user root on opensolaris:global]
2009-01-15.17:00:36 zfs create -b 131072 -V 1024m rpool/dump [user root on opensolaris:global]
The original dump location was a bit bigger than what I set it to.
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Originally Posted by jlliagre
Your investigation failed, dumpadm has no relationship with the swap, especially when on ZFS.
Sorry about my bad investigation, I was going by this info:
You don't remove swap with the dumpadm command but with the swap one:
Code:
swap -d /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap
Jilliagre,
I tried the swap -d command above and it didn't work:
swap -d /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap
/dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap was dump device --
invoking dumpadm(1M) -d swap to select new dump device
dumpadm: no swap devices are available
Do I have to set up another swap device before deleting the original one?
You cannot use a swap device as a dump device on ZFS. Is "/dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap was dump device --" really a message you got from running the swap command ?
How much RAM is installed ? Reducing the dump device size from 8 to 1 GB might prevent a crash dump to complete.
If your swap is in use and no other swap area can pick the stored pages, you cannot remove a swap area.
What exactly are you trying to reproduce with your settings ? kernel panics ?
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