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zpool - device is too small
This happend to me today on one of the “new” SPARC boxes I just received. Both disks are exactly the same so I was a little bit confused why that happened. I’ve got two disks and would like to attach the second one as a mirror.
$ zpool attach rpool c1t0d0s0 c1t1d0s0
invalid vdev specification
use '-f' to override the following errors:
/dev/dsk/c1t1d0s0 contains a ufs filesystem.
So why is an UFS filesystem on one of my disks, which should be “factory default”. Even trying the suggested -f option the force(TM) is not with me.
$ zpool attach -f rpool c1t0d0s0 c1t1d0s0
cannot attach c1t1d0s0 to c1t0d0s0: device is too small
It looked like the installer has done some magic on one of the devices which isn’t used during installation. You can view the partition config of a device with prtvtoc. For example the disk which is currently in use:
$ prtvtoc /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0
* /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 partition map
*
* Dimensions:
* 512 bytes/sector
* 625 sectors/track
* 20 tracks/cylinder
* 12500 sectors/cylinder
* 46875 cylinders
* 46873 accessible cylinders
*
* Flags:
* 1: unmountable
* 10: read-only
*
* First Sector Last
* Partition Tag Flags Sector Count Sector Mount Directory
0 2 00 0 585912500 585912499
2 5 01 0 585912500 585912499
Because I’m sure both disks look exact the same, I could dump the partition map from the first disk and restore it on the second disk.
# Dump partition table to file
$ prtvtoc /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 > /tmp/dsk-partition.dump
Using fmthard to restore the partition table to the second disk.
$ fmthard -s /tmp/dsk-partition.dump /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s0
fmthard: New volume table of contents now in place.
Problem fixed, now I could easily add the device to the zpool.
$ zpool attach rpool c1t0d0s0 c1t1d0s0
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