whats best pracfive for ZFS on a whole disc these days ?

[Marius Nünnerich]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 01:53, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor at gsoft.com.au> wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Nov 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
>>  > There's no need to detach anything.
>>
>> I'll try it when I get home and see how it goes.
>
> Unfortunately I get..
>
> [midget 11:20] ~ >sudo zpool replace tank ad4p2 gptid/6866d8b0-a8ac-11de-8e07-00241dd192cc
> cannot use '/dev/gptid/6866d8b0-a8ac-11de-8e07-00241dd192cc': must be a GEOM provider or regular file
> [midget 11:20] ~ >ll /dev/gptid/6866d8b0-a8ac-11de-8e07-00241dd192cc
> crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0, 164 Oct 21 15:34 /dev/gptid/6866d8b0-a8ac-11de-8e07-00241dd192cc
>

Have you tried naming the GPT partitions and using /dev/gpt/* ?