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From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org>
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On 2011-Sep-22 14:55:06 -0400, Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> wrote:
>I dd-copied a whole drive that had several slices, one of which holds
>a single-disk ZFS in it (nothing mounted at the time of course).  At
>this time both disks are in the machine.
=2E..
>Is there any way to reference a pool by it's /dev/ entry so that I can
>rename the new copy?

Not AFAIK.

> Destroying it would be fine, too, as long as it
>doesn't affect the original one.

You can do this by zeroing the first and last 1MB of the unwanted ZFS
partition - that's where ZFS stores its labels.

--=20
Peter Jeremy

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