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Subject: Re: GPT partition gets erased on boot
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On 11/12/2017 10:59 PM, Walter Parker wrote:
> What would cause the partitions on a ZFS drive to disappear?

In no particular order, these leap to mind:

- A bad drive
- A misconfigured controller
- A dead backup battery on the controller

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