Oracle DBA, How To, Error, Cause and Action

Basic create ZFS file system with few easy steps

To Create ZFS File System

1. All disks should use standard fdisk partition table

# format

Choose your disk, if the disks do not have partition table use Solaris default partition table with fdisk.


2. Create Pool

# zpool create applpool c4t6....d0
# zpool create datapool c4t6....d0 c4t6....d0 c4t6....d0

List all the created pool 
# zpool list 


3. Create mountpoint (prior to this, you must create the /u01, /u02 directories)

# zfs create -o mountpoint=/u01 applpool/u01
# zfs create -o mountpoint=/u02 datapool/u02
# zfs create -o mountpoint=/u03 datapool/u03

 To list the created mountpoint
# zfs list
or 
# df -h 


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