Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 07:35:10 -0800 From: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> To: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to get rid of stale pool? [was (incorrect) stale zpool: how to rename?] Message-ID: <AANLkTikeZoSQxcYfrBQT3dYJemjdn_Mq-VAJrjMMu9mm@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1012101724020.20527@woozle.rinet.ru> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1012092147200.88989@woozle.rinet.ru> <20101209193027.GA10784@icarus.home.lan> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1012101724020.20527@woozle.rinet.ru>
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On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 6:25 AM, Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> wrote: > On Thu, 9 Dec 2010, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > JC> > how can I clear stale traces of old pool? zero out the first and last MB of the disk. ZFS stores the GPT and other pool metadata in those two locations. It's nowhere near a MB in size, but if you clear out the first and last MB, you're guaranteed to clear out all traces of ZFS metadata. -- Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com
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