zfs drive replacement issues

Jeremy Chadwick freebsd at jdc.parodius.com
Mon May 17 08:33:41 UTC 2010


On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 09:37:21AM +0200, Mark Stapper wrote:
> Then make sure the "new" drive isn't part of any zpool (low-level format?).

I think zeroing out the first *and* the last few sectors of the disk
should be sufficient; I'd say use dd to zero out the first and last
64KBytes of the disk.

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