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This prepares partition 1 for the boot loader, partition 2 for the initial
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- ZFS pool (sized same as the original image), and temporarily a partition 3
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- for the original image itself; the rest of the disk is not partitioned at
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- this time.
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+ ZFS pool (sized the same as the original image), and partition 3 for the
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+ original image itself. The rest of the disk is left unpartitioned for now.
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- To recap, below we would populate partitions 1 and 3 with adapted replicas
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- of partitions from the image downloaded above, then we would prepare the ZFS
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- pool and dataset layout on partition 2 and transfer the files from partition 3
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- (it should fit well, more so if you enable ZFS compression).
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+ Below, we populate partitions 1 and 3 from the image downloaded above,
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+ create the ZFS pool on partition 2, and transfer the files from partition 3
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+ to the pool. As the ZFS partition is sized the same as the original image,
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+ everything should fit; while filesystem overhead may be different, the
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+ original image is not completely full, and ZFS has compression enabled.
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- Finally, we would remove partition 3 and expand the ZFS pool (and partition 2)
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- to consume all the disk after it.
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- Let's go!
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+ Finally, we remove partition 3 and expand partition 2 and the ZFS pool to
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+ consume the rest of the disk.
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#. Connect the disk:
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