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Date:      Sun, 4 May 2014 21:11:25 -0500
From:      Andrew Berg <aberg010@my.hennepintech.edu>
To:        <freebsd-geom@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Recreating a GPT
Message-ID:  <5366F34D.1000602@my.hennepintech.edu>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1405041820340.9604@wonkity.com>
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On 2014.05.04 19:26, Warren Block wrote:
> One copy of the disk should be enough.  Different partition offsets can 
> be tried without having to copy the whole disk again.  The backup GPT 
> table at the end of the disk will be vacant after "gpart destroy", so 
> rewriting it won't harm any actual data.
> ...
> 'gpart restore' is just a single-step version of 'gpart create' and 
> 'gpart add' for as many partitions as were on the original.
Thanks for the clarification.

I recreated the partition table, and zpool can now see it for import, but says
the disk is unavailable. It's possible the alignment is off slightly, but
unfortunately, I don't think that's the case. Thanks for the help, though.




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