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

[Apostolos Syropoulos]

>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?



This is what fdisk says about the disk:
                                               Cylinders
      Partition   Status    Type          Start   End   Length    %
      =========   ======    ============  =====   ===   ======   ===
          1       Active    IFS: NTFS         0  45600    45601     75
          2                 Solaris2       45600  60191    14592     24


and this is what the partition item of format says:
partition> p
Current partition table (original):
Total disk cylinders available: 14590 + 2 (reserved cylinders)

Part      Tag    Flag     Cylinders         Size            Blocks
  0 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
  1 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
  2     backup    wu       0 - 14589      447.06GB    (14590/0/0) 937553400
  3 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
  4 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
  5 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
  6 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
  7 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
  8       boot    wu       0 -     0       31.38MB    (1/0/0)         64260
  9 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0

A.S.