Problems creating a zpool

I'm trying to restore my 13.1 system from an external drive.

So far I've booted into a livefs from a 13.1 bootable memory stick and 
am attempting to create a new zpool with the command:

root@:~ # zpool create -m none -O compress=on atime=off wdssd gpt/wdsys2

but I get this error message:

"cannot open 'wdssd': no such device in /dev
must be a full path or shorthand device name"

I've also tried /dev/gpt/wdsys2 and /dev/ada1p3 but with the same error.

The device appears to have been created OK:

root@:~ # gpart show -l ada1
=>        40  1953525088  ada1  GPT  (932G)
           40        1024     1  wdboot2  (512K)
         1064        3032     2  wdefi2  (1.5M)
         4096  1953521032     3  wdsys2  (932G)

root@:~ # gpart show  ada1
=>        40  1953525088  ada1  GPT  (932G)
           40        1024     1  freebsd-boot  (512K)
         1064        3032     2  efi  (1.5M)
         4096  1953521032     3  freebsd-zfs  (932G)

root@:~ # ls -l /dev/gpt/wdsys2
crw-r-----  1 root  operator  0xcd Apr  6 18:37 /dev/gpt/wdsys2
root@:~ # ls -l /dev/ada1p3
crw-r-----  1 root  operator  0x9d Apr  6 18:37 /dev/ada1p3

But I'm unable to use it to create a pool named wdssd, what am I missing?