On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 07:40:59PM -0500, ill...@gmail.com wrote: > On 18 January 2013 15:08, Bob Willcox <b...@immure.com> wrote: > > Is there a way to repair a GPT partition table that has gotten corrupted > > (following a system hang during heavy I/O to a ZFS filesystem)? > > > > I now get these errors whenever I boot the system: > > > > GEOM: da0: corrupt or invalid GPT detected. > > GEOM: da0: GPT rejected -- may not be recoverable. > > > > Fortunately, my ZFS filesystem on the disk (actually a RAID 5 array on a > > ARC-1223 adapter) still mounts and seems to be ok. There is only one > > partition > > on the disk (the ZFS one) and it covered the entire disk so restoring it > > should be easy. Question is, is there a way to do this and will it be safe > > (I > > wouldn't want to trash the filesystem in the partion). > > > > A 'gpart show da0' gives this result: > > > > gpart: No such geom: da0. > > > > This is on a 9.1-STABLE system: > > > > FreeBSD rancor.immure.com 9.1-STABLE FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE #2 r245176: Tue Jan > > 8 15:45:29 CST 2013 > > b...@amidala.immure.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/AMIDALA amd64 > > > > > > Any help would be much appreciated. > > > > Is the whole disk in the zfs pool, or is this a > single partition covering the whole disk that > has been placed in the zfs pool?
It is a single partition covering the entire disk. > > Have you tried to repair it with the zfs tools? No, not sure what to try. I'm fairly new to zfs. Thanks, Bob > > -- > -- -- Bob Willcox | LIVING YOUR LIFE: b...@immure.com | A task so difficult, it has never been attempted before. Austin, TX | _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"