Growing a Solaris LDOM rpool

This is a procedure that might be useful if you ever have to grow a Solaris VTOC /SMI partition containing a rpool.

Change zfs volume from 20G to 25G

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# zfs set volsize=25G rpool/ldoms/sol11_gold/disk0
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# zfs get volsize rpool/ldoms/sol11_gold/disk0
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NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE
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rpool/ldoms/sol11_gold/disk0 volsize 25G local

Procedure if existing label is a VTOC / SMI

Inside the guest record the current VTOC. You could possibly recover using fmthard.

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root@solaris:/root# prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c2d1s0
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* /dev/rdsk/c2d1s0 partition map
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*
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* Dimensions:
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* 512 bytes/sector
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* 768 sectors/track
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* 96 tracks/cylinder
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* 73728 sectors/cylinder
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* 568 cylinders
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* 566 accessible cylinders
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*
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* Flags:
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* 1: unmountable
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* 10: read-only
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*
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* Unallocated space:
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* First Sector Last
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* Sector Count Sector
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* 0 73728 73727
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*
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* First Sector Last
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* Partition Tag Flags Sector Count Sector Mount Directory
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0 2 00 73728 41656320 41730047
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2 5 01 0 41730048 41730047

Use format > verify and record the output

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Primary label contents:
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Volume name = <        >
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ascii name  =
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pcyl        =  568
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ncyl        =  566
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acyl        =    2
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nhead       =   96
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nsect       =  768
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Part      Tag    Flag     Cylinders       Size            Blocks
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  0       root    wm       1 - 565       19.86GB    (565/0/0) 41656320
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  1 unassigned    wm       0              0         (0/0/0)          0
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  2     backup    wu       0 - 565       19.90GB    (566/0/0) 41730048
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  3 unassigned    wm       0              0         (0/0/0)          0
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  4 unassigned    wm       0              0         (0/0/0)          0
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  5 unassigned    wm       0              0         (0/0/0)          0
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  6 unassigned    wm       0              0         (0/0/0)          0
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  7 unassigned    wm       0              0         (0/0/0)          0

Change label to EFI using format -e

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root@solaris:/root# format -e
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format> label
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[0] SMI Label
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[1] EFI Label
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Specify Label type[0]: 1
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Warning: This disk has an SMI label. Changing to EFI label will erase all
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current partitions.
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Continue? y

Change label back using format -e

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format> label
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[0] SMI Label
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[1] EFI Label
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Specify Label type[1]: 0

Next recreate the initial partitions. Check that the cylinder size of the disk geometry hasn”t changed. If it has changed then you will be unable to recreate the initial partitions.

Run format > verify and check that “nhead” and “nsect” are the same as before the geometry was changed (from the format > verify output that was initially saved)

Partition table before fixing it

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format> verify
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Warning: Primary label on disk appears to be different from
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current label.
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Warning: Check the current partitioning and 'label' the disk or use the
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         'backup' command.
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Primary label contents:
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Volume name = <        >
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ascii name  =
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pcyl        =  711
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ncyl        =  709
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acyl        =    2
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nhead       =   96
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nsect       =  768
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Part      Tag    Flag     Cylinders       Size            Blocks
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  0       root    wm       0 -   3      144.00MB    (4/0/0)     294912
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  1       swap    wu       4 -   7      144.00MB    (4/0/0)     294912
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  2     backup    wu       0 - 708       24.93GB    (709/0/0) 52273152
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  3 unassigned    wm       0              0         (0/0/0)          0
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  4 unassigned    wm       0              0         (0/0/0)          0
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  5 unassigned    wm       0              0         (0/0/0)          0
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  6        usr    wm       8 - 708       24.64GB    (701/0/0) 51683328
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  7 unassigned    wm       0              0         (0/0/0)          0

Recreate the partition table based on your original verify. Leave slice 2 as is.

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partition > pr
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Current partition table (unnamed):
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Total disk cylinders available: 709 + 2 (reserved cylinders)
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Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks
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0 root wm 1 - 565 19.86GB (565/0/0) 41656320
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1 unassigned wu 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
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2 backup wu 0 - 708 24.93GB (709/0/0) 52273152
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3 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
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4 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
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5 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
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6 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
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7 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
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partition > label
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Ready to label disk, continue? y
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partition > q

**** I think I should have made slice the full 24G not the original 19G. I will verify his is a future test.

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root@solaris:/root# sync
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root@solaris:/root# reboot

**** Could not get the rpool to see the larger slice. Booted DVD and changed slice to the full size 24GB of the disk. That still did not fix it so l****ets try booting a Solaris 11 DVD and import/export the rpool.

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root@solaris:/root# zpool import rpool
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root@solaris:/root# zpool status
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pool: rpool
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state: ONLINE
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scan: none requested
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config:
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NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
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rpool ONLINE 0 0 0
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c2d1s0 ONLINE 0 0 0
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errors: No known data errors
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root@solaris:/root# zpool list
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NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT
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rpool 24.9G 5.32G 19.6G 21% 1.00x ONLINE -
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root@solaris:/root# zpool export rpool

Reboot and guest is seeing larger rpool

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root@solaris:~# zpool list
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NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT
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rpool 24.9G 5.32G 19.6G 21% 1.00x ONLINE -