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On Sat, 3 Jan 2015, Kevin Oberman wrote:

> As per an earlier suggestion, did you put:
> kern.geom.label.gpt.enable=0
> into /boot/loader.conf? If so, that's why you lack a /dev/gpt label. This
> is usually a "friendlier" string than the diskid, but both work equally
> well.

Remember also that GEOM devices--some of them--can "wither" (disappear) 
when they are in use.  So mounting a partition can cause other GEOM 
views of it to not be visible even if they exist.