Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 09:10:27 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: claudiu vasadi <claudiu.vasadi@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: listing ZFS pool name in fixit mode Message-ID: <20110805141026.GB66340@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <CAM-i3ijD=sztDR6cT5L1FFO8T8Dbg=2v7Bs_i0g=xj=v8ZEszQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAM-i3ijD=sztDR6cT5L1FFO8T8Dbg=2v7Bs_i0g=xj=v8ZEszQ@mail.gmail.com>
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In the last episode (Aug 05), claudiu vasadi said: > I have a 8.2-amd64 machine on which I blew up the boot blocks (isn't > booting any more). It's s supermicro server btw and we have a ZFSonRooT > setup there. > > The way I want to go about fixing it is booting into single user mode, > mounting all the datasets, undoing the modification I did to the boot > blocks, recompiling and installing the "old" version of the boot blocks > for the system to boot. > > The problem is that after I boot a 8.2-DVD and then go to fixit mode, load > the opensolaris and the zfs modules, I cannot list the ZFS pool name (I > don;t know the ZFS pool name because I didn;t setup this machine) and > without the name, I cannot import the pool to fix the boot blocks. > > So, my question is if there is a way to list the zpool in single user mode > so that I know which pool I have to import or if there might be another > way of fixing this problem. "zpool import" with no pool name will list all the pools available to import. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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