Re: Problems creating a zpool

In reply to: Mike Clarke : "Problems creating a zpool"
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From: Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2_at_milibyte.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2023 11:21:10 UTC

On Thursday, 6 April 2023 20:57:00 BST Mike Clarke wrote:
> 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"

Sorry about the accidental duplicate post.

The problem is solved. I'd made a careless mistake and omitted -O before atime=off.

-- 
Mike Clarke