On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 04:16:32PM -0600, Alan Somers wrote:
Yes, but it's probably not worth the effort. Easier to spin up 2nd vm and copy everything over. Here is what you'd have to do:
Yeah the problem we have is that option is unavailable to us and wedon't have access to the host.
1) shrink the root filesystem with resizefs. 2) shrink it's partition with gpart. If it's not the last partition on the disk, then you'll have to relocate the last (presumably swap) partition. 3) create a new zfs partition. 4) create a new zfs pool. 5) create all of the various zfs datasets just like the installer does. 6) copy over everything from / to the zfs partition except for /boot. 7) configure loader.conf to boot from zfs.
Assuming, that is, that your VM system even runs the regular boot loader.
and that's a big assumption
8) reboot and pray. 9) spin up a new VM anyway, since you inevitably screwed up something. Good luck.
Yeah you're right. It's a lot of work that could go wrong at any stage. At least there's mksnap_ffs ;) thanks for clarifying -- J.
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