On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 09:17:31AM -0500, John D Groenveld wrote: > In message <20210302014545.ga6...@imap.fastmail.com>, Gary Mills writes: > >These are Solaris partions, now called slices. They are within a > >single FDISK partition. You can use the partition command within > >format to see the slices. You can use the fdisk command within format > >to see the FDISK partitions. > > They are GPT partitions, not Solaris slices within a legacy MBR fdisk > partition.
Sorry. I should not have replied. I've never used GPT disks, although ZFS offers to use the whole disk, whatever that means. I only know about FDISK partitions and Solaris slices. There was once one type of partition, then there were two, and now there is three. > There may be nomenclature byg here: > # zpool create -f -B -d weetest c4t0d0 > # fdisk /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0 > If you run fdisk /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0, you will see a single EFI partition, > but fdisk is just reporting that its a GPT labeled disk. > format -e /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0 -> partition will allow to create GPT > partitions, including the EFI GPT partition type only required if > booting UEFI, though I find FreeBSD's gpart(8) easier for the OP's use > case of multiple pools and filesystems on a single disk. -- -Gary Mills- -refurb- -Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
