I understand now, that Gparted relies on blkid to get information about disk layout and that blkid sometimes sees a ZFS pool where it doesn't exist.īut in my case, blkid reported not only ZFS signature on the disk but also a GPT table. ZFS signatures to erase which hadn't been overwritten by other data. (ZFS hasīelow is the start of me doing a worked example. b is creating a backup of the erased signature bytes inģ) Repeat from (1) until there are no more ZFS signatures.
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Replace $offset with hex value from offset reported in step (1).
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To resolve this you will need to manually erase all the ZFS signatures. This confirms blkid finds ZFS file system signatures on the whole diskĪnd this is why GParted is reporting this too. dev/sda9: PARTLABEL="Microsoft reserved partition" 3 Mike Fleetwood Number Start End Size File system Name FlagsĨ 1800GB 1800GB 105MB fat32 EFI system partition boot, espĩ 1800GB 1800GB 134MB Microsoft reserved partition msftresġ0 1800GB 1967GB 166GB ntfs Basic data partition msftdata Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. Seemingly, this is the same bug as 476531, which was closed as INCOMPLETE. But Gparted shows, that there is no partition table an whole disk is formatted to ZFS.
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Then I replaced TrueOS with Archlinux, and used parted in the process of installation. I first installed TrueOS and let it do the partitioning. Screenshot of Gparted, displaing wrong information