Corrupt GPT on ZFS full-disks that shouldn't be using GPT
Chris Stankevitz
chrisstankevitz at gmail.com
Sun Jun 28 04:34:36 UTC 2015
Hi,
I have 11 drives in a zpools. The zpool is using the drives. i.e. I
used "zpool create da1 da2 da3 ... daN". The zpools are running well.
In a former life, each of these these drives held two gpart
partitions. Apparently I did not "gpart destroy" these drives before
creating a zpool out of them.
Now when my computer boots,
1. the zpool comes up and is healthy
2. ls /dev/daX* does not show any of the "old" partitions.
3. dmesg reports "the primary GPT table is corrupt or invalid" and
"using the secondary instead -- recovery strongly advised."
Q: Am I in danger of GPT wrestling control of the drive away from ZFS
Q: How can I remove the secondary GPT table from each of the drives
that are participating in the zpool? I suppose I could offline and
resilver each of them. I'm afraid to dd the secondary GPT header at
the last 512 bytes of the drive. Perhaps there is a way I can ask ZFS
to do that for me?
Thank you,
Chris
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