Re: [zfs-discuss] Clear vdev information from disk

2010-02-28 Thread Tim Cook
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Richard Elling wrote: > On Feb 28, 2010, at 5:05 AM, Lutz Schumann wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > it is damn difficult to destroy ZFS labels :) > > Some people seem to have a knack of doing it accidentally :-) > > > I try to remove the vedev labels of disks used in

Re: [zfs-discuss] Clear vdev information from disk

2010-02-28 Thread Richard Elling
On Feb 28, 2010, at 5:05 AM, Lutz Schumann wrote: > Hello list, > > it is damn difficult to destroy ZFS labels :) Some people seem to have a knack of doing it accidentally :-) > I try to remove the vedev labels of disks used in a pool before. According to > http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/down

[zfs-discuss] Clear vdev information from disk

2010-02-28 Thread Lutz Schumann
Hello list, it is damn difficult to destroy ZFS labels :) I try to remove the vedev labels of disks used in a pool before. According to http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/download/Community+Group+zfs/docs/ondiskformat0822.pdf I created a script that removes the first 512 KB and the last 512 KB, h