A Darren Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 03:19:49AM +0300, Marcus Sundman wrote: > > I've used format's "volname" command to give labels to my drives > > according to their physical location. I did quite a lot of work > > labeling all my drives (I couldn't figure out which controller got > > which numbers so I had to disconnect drives one by one, and they're > > not hotpluggable => lot's of reboots). However, when I created a > > zpool of the drives all the labels vanished! > > If they were SMI labels before, then ZFS probably switched them to > EFI/GPT labels, and the volname dropped out.
I wrote EFI labels on the disks immediately when I got them, before making the volnames, so I don't think that's it. > > Since I didn't write them down > > elsewhere I have to do it all over. Except that now it won't let me: > > > format> volname > > > Unable to get current partition map. > > > Cannot label disk while its partitions are in use as described. > > > format> > > "as described"? Did format tell you anything when you selected the > disk other than "/dev/dsk/xxxxs0 is part of active ZFS pool blah..."? Nope: ----8<--------------------------------------------------------- Specify disk (enter its number): 7 selecting c6t1d0 [disk formatted] /dev/dsk/c6t1d0s0 is part of active ZFS pool safe. Please see zpool(1M). FORMAT MENU: ---->8--------------------------------------------------------- Cheers, Marcus _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
