zpool labelclear destroys GPT data

[Kimmo Paasiala]

The 'device' can be a partition as well as the whole disk, use 'zpool
labelclear' on the freebsd-zfs partition instead of the whole disk.

-Kimmo

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Johan Hendriks <joh.hendriks at gmail.com> wrote:
> When i use zpool labelclear, it wipes the whole disk including gpt data.
> So the whole disk is empty and i need to create the gpt partitions again.
>
> Is this supposed to work like this?
> The man page suggests that it only wipes the ZFS metadata.
>
> zpool labelclear [-f] device
>
>          Removes ZFS label information from the specified device. The device
>          must not be part of an active pool configuration.
>
>          -v      Treat exported or foreign devices as inactive.
>
> This is on FreeBSD 9.1 stable r251213 memstick install.
>
> regards
>
> Johan Hendriks
> Neuteboom Automatisering
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