From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 19 22:25:16 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 891131065674 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:25:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from delphij@delphij.net) Received: from tarsier.geekcn.org (tarsier.geekcn.org [IPv6:2001:470:a803::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C10108FC1A for ; Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:25:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.geekcn.org (tarsier.geekcn.org [211.166.10.233]) by tarsier.geekcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6806A67CC1; Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:25:14 +0800 (CST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at geekcn.org Received: from tarsier.geekcn.org ([211.166.10.233]) by mail.geekcn.org (mail.geekcn.org [211.166.10.233]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id ZpgMZYho26gn; Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:25:04 +0800 (CST) Received: from delta.delphij.net (drawbridge.ixsystems.com [206.40.55.65]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by tarsier.geekcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EEBB8A67ADB; Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:25:02 +0800 (CST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=default; d=delphij.net; c=nofws; q=dns; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:organization:user-agent: mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to: x-enigmail-version:openpgp:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=mHfocVNzApDkT21rvv2KB8L49NjgPPcIYsTec6F1WW1lSo2IN+x/F1Wme3VDeSFlb /gGO+V3BCXlmQLPxSWGsw== Message-ID: <4C44D0BA.5080705@delphij.net> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:24:58 -0700 From: Xin LI Organization: The Geek China Organization User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100629 Thunderbird/3.0.5 ThunderBrowse/3.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Sam Fourman Jr." References: <242312022.4636340.1279374040721.JavaMail.fmail@mwmweb017> <4C44C19C.4080302@delphij.net> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 OpenPGP: id=3FCA37C1; url=http://www.delphij.net/delphij.asc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, d@delphij.net, Michael Gusek Subject: Re: Problem with ZFS version 15 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: d@delphij.net List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:25:16 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2010/07/19 14:37, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: >> If you have previous saved gpart information (e.g. start/end) then you >> can safely destroy and re-create the GPT partitions without destroying >> the data. >> >> Note that you may need to backup and dd the first and last sector of >> your hard drive before proceeding. >> > > Could someone post a example of how to correctly backup a gpart > partition information For now it would be to backup the first 34 and last 33 sectors of a given disk. Another way would be to copy what gpart show says and restore it manually. Cheers, - -- Xin LI http://www.delphij.net/ FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! Live free or die -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJMRNC6AAoJEATO+BI/yjfBEjcIAIj3e/n7DUBfXhaUKEOSrP2q fvJlAKiQoDyRpzuovT/9/c9jCUxOOgpW43S7EVQ244uzgVEGB2Su5jXOjX6dU+rZ ba0JwH60ANMB6RAsJFSk1cT6xMmQ4TMfSYCwwlx9p6Fbv2ejdd5gKE+zvbc20fwN HIojqdF9xIW2XT3gjvAngn69c/0EtHoJVG1gydlO3H3te6iDVM6CY5yHV71WJrEk cFDD6x65VYmC2GWYYbeokf2ud8nry1QjzxzBJRd9T0eHXPWweJBC7lOsIOSW5QYa 1VsyhFE8s1xPwtYTAYFUw3IhBzJdLt36n+YAEQEbrX20/G5+Qn2oo/bw0kIYrFg= =SsvG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----