06-08-2013
@everyone....
But surely, unless something has changed in Solaris 11 x86, you can't set up 'slices' on a disk with a EFI label. cbtshare has posted a display of the disk label showing it as EFI which is what it would be having been in a zfs pool. Doesn't the label need to be changed to SMI before you can write a sliced disk table?
Also, my understanding is that EFI labels and SMI labels put their partition tables in different locations (starting disk sectors) so utilities for one of the labels may not work at all on a disk with the other label (often displaying 'unknown')
I am not certain that I am right on this hence invite comments from everyone on this thread.
SunBlog: Changing a disk label (EFI / SMI)
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Just Googled and found this....
UNIX my first love...: EFI ( Extensible Firmware Interface) disk label & SMI (Sun Microsystems Inc) or VTOC disk label.
Does that work?
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I reckon that, as per my previous post#3, it needs a Sun (SMI) label written to the disk.
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