Re: [zfs-discuss] Killing an EFI label

2010-02-18 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi David, Its a life-long curse to describe the format utility. Trust me. :-) I think you want to relabel some disks with an EFI label to SMI label to be used in your ZFS root pool, and you have overlapping slices on one disk. I don't think ZFS would let you attach this disk. To fix the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Killing an EFI label

2010-02-18 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Thu, February 18, 2010 14:39, Cindy Swearingen wrote: Its a life-long curse to describe the format utility. Trust me. :-) Oh, I believe it! But thanks for confirming. I think you want to relabel some disks with an EFI label to SMI label to be used in your ZFS root pool, and you have

[zfs-discuss] Killing an EFI label

2010-02-17 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Since this seems to be a ubiquitous problem for people running ZFS, even though it's really a general Solaris admin issue, I'm guessing the expertise is actually here, so I'm asking here. I found lots of online pages telling how to do it. None of them were correct or complete. I think. I