<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>> What does prtvtoc(8) report? <URL:<a href="https://illumos.org/man/8/prtvtoc" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://illumos.org/man/8/prtvtoc</a>></div><div><br></div><div>I changed the partition table (changed partition table number using gdisk) so illumos partition maps to s6 properly day before yesterday. Can't get prtvtoc output case anymore. All partition info I had earlier is in email below:</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Aug 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM Atiq Rahman <<a href="mailto:atiqcx@gmail.com">atiqcx@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi John,</div><div>Here's the partition order that repros that on my system.</div><div><br></div><div>---</div><div><span id="m_8412109138923408230gmail-docs-internal-guid-4ffa26ec-7fff-fd5c-5a23-fdf23851e15c"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Consolas,sans-serif;font-size:9pt">$ sudo parted /dev/rdsk/c2t00A075014881A463d0 print</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Consolas,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Model: Generic Ide (ide)<br>Disk /dev/rdsk/c2t00A075014881A463d0: 1024GB<br>Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B<br>Partition Table: gpt<br><br>Number Start End Size File system Name Flags <br> 1 1049kB 269MB 268MB fat32 EFI System Partition boot <br> 2 269MB 404MB 134MB Microsoft reserved partition msftres<br> 3 404MB 138GB 137GB ntfs Basic data partition <br> 4 138GB 139GB 1074MB ntfs Basic data partition hidden <br> 5 139GB 242GB 103GB ntfs Basic data partition <br> 6 242GB 767GB 525GB <br> 7 767GB 768GB 1000MB ext3 pop_os/boot <br> 8 768GB 1024GB 256GB solaris <br><br>$ sudo format<br>* /dev/rdsk/c2t00A075014881A463d0 partition map<br>*<br>* Dimensions:<br>* 512 bytes/sector<br>* 2000409264 sectors<br>* 2000409197 accessible sectors<br>*<br>* Flags:<br>* 1: unmountable<br>* 10: read-only<br>*<br>* Unallocated space:<br>* First Sector Last<br>* Sector Count Sector<br>* 34 2014 2047<br>* 269223936 2097152 271321087<br>* 472647680 1027352576 1500000255<br>* 2000408576 654 2000409229<br>*<br>* First Sector Last<br>* Partition Tag Flags Sector Count Sector Mount Directory<br> 0 12 00 2048 524288 526335<br> 1 19 00 526336 262144 788479<br> 2 20 00 788480 268435456 269223935<br> 4 20 00 271321088 201326592 472647679<br> (last entry came out to be 6 0 0 something that doesn't make sense...)<br>----<br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p></span></div><div>As a workaround, I changed the last partition's number using gdisk which led to a successful zfs pool creation. Till I did that OI wasn't able to find that partition (on slice 7 nothing was mapped, on slice 6 linux's /boot partition was mapped).</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><a name="m_8412109138923408230_SignatureSanitizer__MailAutoSig"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Roboto">Cheers!</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><a name="m_8412109138923408230_SignatureSanitizer__MailAutoSig"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Roboto">Atiq</span></a></p></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 7:21 PM John D Groenveld via oi-dev <<a href="mailto:oi-dev@openindiana.org" target="_blank">oi-dev@openindiana.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">In message <<a href="mailto:CABC65rN6C2FwKs%2BmiCtnGQK3-Mm3VaDZzbnwfA7npL6TuYCKKw@mail.gmail.com" target="_blank">CABC65rN6C2FwKs+miCtnGQK3-Mm3VaDZzbnwfA7npL6TuYCKKw@mail.gmail.com</a>><br>
, Atiq Rahman writes:<br>
>*zpool lists pool from unavailable GPT Partition/Slice:*<br>
>When my solaris/illumos partition is 8 as the number as listed on parted,<br>
>the OI live image format etc tools cannot find it anymore even though<br>
>parted lists it fine (and number on parted output becomes greater than 7,<br>
>s7 for example won't work with the tools, format won't show the slice)<br>
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I am unable to reproduce on OI:<br>
# zpool status<br>
pool: rpool<br>
state: ONLINE<br>
scan: none requested<br>
config:<br>
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NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM<br>
rpool ONLINE 0 0 0<br>
c2t0d0s9 ONLINE 0 0 0<br>
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errors: No known data errors<br>
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What does prtvtoc(8) report for your partition table?<br>
<URL:<a href="https://illumos.org/man/8/prtvtoc" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://illumos.org/man/8/prtvtoc</a>><br>
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John<br>
<a href="mailto:groeneld@acm.org" target="_blank">groeneld@acm.org</a><br>
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