Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2022 11:52:18 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@gmail.com> To: <Hartmut.Brandt@dlr.de> Cc: <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Odd behaviour after disk conversion (partition disappeared) Message-ID: <20220318115218.0938a421@ernst.home> In-Reply-To: <7e5669b2afe842b3bbc16737d8a3066c@dlr.de> References: <7e5669b2afe842b3bbc16737d8a3066c@dlr.de>
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On Fri, 18 Mar 2022 09:52:47 +0000 <Hartmut.Brandt@dlr.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a virtual machine on Hyper-V running 12.1-RELEASE-p2. Root is > mounted on /dev/da0s1a. Now we have converted the disk image from .vhdx to > .vmdk to use it on a VMware workstation. Now the BSD partitions > disappeared, but the thing still boots, but from /dev/ada0s1. Of course I > cannot see the swap partition anymore. > > gpart show da0 on the old image shows: > [...] > 63 1 - free - (512B) > 64 62914495 1 freebsd [active] (30G) > 62914559 1 - free - (512B) > > and gpart show da0s1: > [...] > 0 58720256 1 freebsd-ufs (28G) > 58720256 3145728 2 freebsd-swap (1.5G) > 61865984 1048511 - free - (512M) > > on the new image gpart show ada0: > [...] > 63 1 - free - (512B) > 64 62914495 1 freebsd [active] (30G) > 62914559 1 - free - (512B) > > and gpart show ada0s1: > gpart: No such geom: ada0s1. > > What happened? The conversion process is supposed to make a 1:1 copy of > the disk image. > This doesn't answer your question, but you could try running swapctl -lh to see how much swap the kernel sees and which partition is used. -- Gary Jennejohn
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