On Du, 14 mar 21, 17:34:40, Victor Sudakov wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > I'm guessing it's in the GPT somewhere. Did you try removing the entire > > partition table before switching to ZFS? > > There had been no partition table, I just ran "mkfs.btrfs /dev/nvme1n1" > on the whole raw volume, and then mounted /dev/nvme1n1. > > Later, when switching to ZFS, I ran "zpool create fastdrive /dev/nvme1n1" > again on the whole volume. But ZFS outsmarted me and created a GPT > though I had not asked it to. Your blkid output suggests the GPT was created by btrfs ;) > The FreeBSD variety of ZFS does not do that, but Solaris AFAIR does > like Linux. In my understanding it does so to reserve 8MiB of space at the end of the drive, in case a later replacement for a RAID is slightly smaller. It also allows to use GPT partition labels on create to get nicer names for your physical devices. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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