Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 10:12:04 -0600 From: jd1008 <jd1008@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ufs to zfs Message-ID: <580F8454.3060605@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <c0047d25-fd98-227f-087a-6feda3c0161b@FreeBSD.org> References: <1477220901.79813.5.camel@yandex.com> <bd37effb-7cf6-55ba-2dd7-193948b8dbf2@FreeBSD.org> <580E59C3.2000801@gmail.com> <c0047d25-fd98-227f-087a-6feda3c0161b@FreeBSD.org>
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Yes! I was assuming booting from live media - but did not state it as I thought it obvious. I have done this type of FS change several times. Cheers, JD On 10/24/2016 05:11 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 24/10/2016 19:58, jd1008 wrote: >> The OP says he does have an external drive which the bios does not allow >> booting from. >> He can he back up (tar) the current system that is UFS based to the >> external drive, >> clobber the ufs partition by simply formatting it as a ZFS partition, >> and at some >> point, (after appropriate admin of zfs partition), tar the system back >> into the zfs partition. >> Is this "doable"? (Pardon the bad "english"). > He wouldn't be able to clobber the UFS partition if he was booted from > it. So he needs to boot from something else. Supposing that, then yes, > you could do this. You'ld need to boot from some other media -- a > bootable USB stick perhaps, or an installer DVD image, the image for > either of which can be downloaded from ftp.freebsd.org > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > >
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