On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 12:22 AM, Johan Hendriks <joh.hendr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Op 13-6-2013 14:40, Kimmo Paasiala schreef: > >> The 'device' can be a partition as well as the whole disk, use 'zpool >> labelclear' on the freebsd-zfs partition instead of the whole disk. >> >> -Kimmo >> >> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Johan Hendriks <joh.hendr...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> When i use zpool labelclear, it wipes the whole disk including gpt data. >>> So the whole disk is empty and i need to create the gpt partitions again. >>> >>> Is this supposed to work like this? >>> The man page suggests that it only wipes the ZFS metadata. >>> >>> zpool labelclear [-f] device >>> >>> Removes ZFS label information from the specified device. The >>> device >>> must not be part of an active pool configuration. >>> >>> -v Treat exported or foreign devices as inactive. >>> >>> This is on FreeBSD 9.1 stable r251213 memstick install. >>> >>> regards >>> >>> Johan Hendriks >>> Neuteboom Automatisering >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > > Thanks for your reply. > I will try it on the actual zfs partition. > > But imho it is a bad thing that it destroys the whole disk layout. > It does not remove ZFS label information, it removes ALL label information > on the disk or device you give it > > > regards > Johan Hendriks > Neuteboom Automatisering >
Of course, zpool(8) will do exactly what you tell it to do. It does not know about any partitioning schemes and assumes that the user knows that using labelclear on a the whole disk will potentially destroy all data on it including any partitioning information. -Kimmo _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
