fsck does not work on ZFS ZVOL formatted as UFS2

Kostik Belousov kostikbel at gmail.com
Sat Jun 4 10:24:07 UTC 2011


On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 10:50:36AM +0100, David Evans wrote:
> This does not work
> 
> zroot2 is a ZFS pool
> 
> zfs create -V 10g zroot2/volume
> newfs /dev/zvol/zroot2/volume
> fsck /dev/zvol/zroot2/volume
> 
> returns error- fsck: Could not determine filesystem type
> 
> dumpfs and tunefs work on the volume.
> 
> Perhaps I am doing something wrong, otherwise I
> would submit this as a bug report.
> 
> 9-CURRENT as of a few days ago, amd64

fsck needs an entry in fstab to determine the filesystem type.
Either add the line to fstab, or use -t ufs.

This has nothing to do with zvols.
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