[OpenIndiana-discuss] zpool on the second partition of an external disk

[James Carlson]

On 09/07/17 16:50, Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss wrote:
> 
>> Ok, but what is the problem?
>> What is the output and stderr of your zpool create cXtYdZp2 command?
>> Does it gives any error?
> 
> After more searching I concluded that the command should be
> # zpool create -f utank c13t0d0s2
> 
> The logical Node was  /dev/rdsk/c13t0d0p0and format --> partition --> print showed that slice 2 is the one where I can store data. 
> I have also used fdisk to delete all partitions and thenparted to create the NTFS partition. In order to create thefile system I have used  
> # zfs create utank/External  #chown -R user:group /utank/External
> 
> Now I can use the partition!

p2 is, by convention, "whole disk" when using old-style partitioning.
If you're using that and you've partitioned the disk, I think you've
trashed your NTFS partition or (worse) you have an overlap.

Are you sure?  What exactly does "format" say about the partition map?

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