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Operating Systems Solaris after ZFS can not restore VTOC of disk.. Post 302262927 by pravinlandge on Saturday 29th of November 2008 03:07:39 PM
Old 11-29-2008
in solaris 10 ZFS uses a EFI disk in this type you cant see 7 slices if you want to SMI disk type format -e <disk>

then lable it you will get output like this
format> lable
[0] SMI Label
[1] EFI Label
Specify Label type[0]:

Press enter

and again lable this time it will not asked 0 or 1 you will get your 7 slice

Thanks
Smilie Pravin L
 

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efi_fsinit(1M)															    efi_fsinit(1M)

NAME
efi_fsinit - write an EFI file system header on a device file SYNOPSIS
devicefile] DESCRIPTION
writes an EFI file system header on a device file. The EFI file system is based on the FAT file system and used by the Itanium-based system BIOS to locate an HP-UX bootloader. See efi(4). Before any other EFI commands can be run, must be run to initialize the file system on a device file. Options recognizes the following option: Write the file system header on device devicefile. Without the option, uses the device file specified in the environment variable if it is defined. The option overrides the environment variable. RETURN VALUE
returns exit code 0 if the EFI file system is initialized successfully. Otherwise it prints a diagnostic message and returns nonzero. 0 Successful completion. >0 Error condition occurred. EXAMPLES
Write an EFI file system header on device file Write an EFI file system header on the persistent device file (see intro(7)): AUTHOR
was developed by HP. SEE ALSO
efi_cp(1M), efi_ls(1M), efi_mkdir(1M), efi_rm(1M), efi_rmdir(1M), efi(4), intro(7). Itanium(R)-based Systems Only efi_fsinit(1M)
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