gpart labels - why arent't some showing up in /dev/gpt/?

Charles Sprickman spork at bway.net
Thu May 3 00:02:48 UTC 2012


On May 2, 2012, at 5:29 AM, Gustau Pérez i Querol wrote:

> Al 02/05/2012 08:46, En/na Peter Maloney ha escrit:
>> I have the same problem. Any time you boot off a CD/DVD and use import -f (and then don't export), or I guess use import -f a pool from anywhere, it does that. I don't know any non-zfs causes for the problem.
> 
>  When doing the import -f, use -d /dev/gpt to force zpool to search for devices in /dev/gpt. That way the import will be done by gpt name, instead of by device name.

This would be an awesome addition to the zfs wiki or zpool manpage.

How did you figure this out?

Charles

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