Recreating a GPT
Andrew Berg
aberg010 at my.hennepintech.edu
Mon May 5 01:11:48 UTC 2014
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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