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From: Martin Simmons <martin@lispworks.com>
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Subject: Re: Devices disappeared after drive shuffle - or - how to recover
 and mount a slice with UFS partitions.
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>>>>> On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:56:54 +1000, Danny Carroll said:
> 
> My only real question is.   Why did the devices fail to be created in
> /dev from the original disk?

See if the partitions are listed in the output of:

sysctl -b kern.geom.conftxt

If not, then it looks like a kernel/geom problem.

__Martin