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Date:      Mon, 17 May 2010 01:33:39 -0700
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
To:        Mark Stapper <stark@mapper.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Todd Wasson <tsw5@duke.edu>
Subject:   Re: zfs drive replacement issues
Message-ID:  <20100517083339.GA98532@icarus.home.lan>
In-Reply-To: <4BF0F231.9000706@mapper.nl>
References:  <0B97967D-1057-4414-BBD4-4F1AA2659A5D@duke.edu> <4BF0F231.9000706@mapper.nl>

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On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 09:37:21AM +0200, Mark Stapper wrote:
> Then make sure the "new" drive isn't part of any zpool (low-level format?).

I think zeroing out the first *and* the last few sectors of the disk
should be sufficient; I'd say use dd to zero out the first and last
64KBytes of the disk.

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| Jeremy Chadwick                                   jdc@parodius.com |
| Parodius Networking                       http://www.parodius.com/ |
| UNIX Systems Administrator                  Mountain View, CA, USA |
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