[oi-dev] [developer] Illumos/Solaris zpool ands GPT Partitions/Slices

John D Groenveld groenveld at acm.org
Sat Aug 16 02:21:05 UTC 2025


In message <CABC65rN6C2FwKs+miCtnGQK3-Mm3VaDZzbnwfA7npL6TuYCKKw at mail.gmail.com>
, Atiq Rahman writes:
>*zpool lists pool from unavailable GPT Partition/Slice:*
>When my solaris/illumos partition is 8 as the number as listed on parted,
>the OI live image format etc tools cannot find it anymore even though
>parted lists it fine (and number on parted output becomes greater than 7,
>s7 for example won't work with the tools, format won't show the slice)

I am unable to reproduce on OI:
# zpool status
  pool: rpool
 state: ONLINE
  scan: none requested
config:

        NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        rpool       ONLINE       0     0     0
          c2t0d0s9  ONLINE       0     0     0

errors: No known data errors

What does prtvtoc(8) report for your partition table?
<URL:https://illumos.org/man/8/prtvtoc>

John
groeneld at acm.org



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