09-02-2011
As far as I know disks used in ZFS pools require EFI labels.
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Hi Peeps,
Can anyone help me an EFI lablel on a 3510 raid array that I cannot get rid of, format -e and label just asks you if you want to label it. Want an SMI label writing to it.
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Hello, I am new to Solaris so i apologize upfront if my questions seem trivial.
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I accidently added a disk in different zpool instead of pool, where I want.
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pool: cvfdb2_app_pool
state: ONLINE
scan: none requested
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Hi all,
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Hi all,
I have a EFI disk and it is use in zfs pool.
partition> p
Volume: rpool
Current partition table (original):
Total disk sectors available: 1172107117 + 16384 (reserved sectors)
Part Tag Flag First Sector Size Last Sector
0 usr wm ... (8 Replies)
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efi_fsinit
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)