On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 09:24:12AM +0100, Gerrit Kühn wrote: > On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:27:21 -0700 Elliot Finley <[email protected]> > wrote about Re: zpool vdev vs. glabel: > > EF> I ran into this same problem. you need to clean the beginning and end > EF> of your disk off before glabeling and adding it to your pool. clean > EF> with dd if=/dev/zero... > > Hm, I think I did that (at least for the beginning part). > Maybe I was not quite clear what I did below: I removed and re-attached > the *same* disk which was labelled with glabel and running fine brefore. > The label was there when I inserted it back, but zfs went for the da > device node anyway. > If I see this problem again, I will try to wipe the complete disk before > re-inserting it.
If I remember right, glabel metadata is stored in the last sector of the disk, not the beginning. "glabel clear" would probably be easier than dd if=/dev/zero'ing the entire disk. -- | Jeremy Chadwick [email protected] | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
