Zpool not recognized after disk moved to different name

[Justin Hibbits]

On Oct 20, 2013 10:12 AM, "Allan Jude" <freebsd at allanjude.com> wrote:
>
> On 2013-10-20 13:07, Justin Hibbits wrote:
> > Hi, I'm migrating a system exhibiting the click of death to a new hard
> > drive, on PowerPC, and in the process migrating to zfs.  I set up the
> > system, then pulled the old drive out. Now, the spool that was on
ada1s5 is
> > now on ada0s5, and zfs won't recognize this pool. I can't recreate the
> > pool, it says it is too dangerous.  Is there any way to reactivate this
> > pool after the disk name change?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Justin
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> Please provide the output of the following commands:
>
> gpart show
> zpool import
> zdb -l /dev/<each device/slice you think might be the ZFS>
>
>
> --
> Allan Jude

Hi Allan,

I was missing the zpool import' command, hadn't seen it before, but a forum
search found its usage for me. Had to do a 'zpool import -f' on the pool,
but now it is up and fully functional.  Seems obvious now :-)

Thanks,
Justin