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Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 15:23:45 +0100
From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: gpt label missing after adding gjournal
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On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 08:00:34 -0600 (MDT)
Warren Block wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Aug 2014, RW wrote:
> 
> >
> >

> > and then I created gp0home.journal and  gp0rest.eli.journal
> >
> > when I rebooted gp0home was missing from /dev/gpt
> >
> > $ ls  /dev/gpt
> > gp0boot gp0rest gp0root gp0swap gp0usr  gp0var
> >
> > The gjournal partition is recognized as
> > /dev/ada1p6.journal and can be mounted, but I can't mount it with
> > the gpt label.
> >
> > Anyone know what's going on?
> 
> Mounting a device, or that device being used by another device, can 
> cause the labels to be hidden. 

The label is missing at boot time. I only mounted  /dev/ada1p6.journal
once just to check it worked - nothing changed when I unmounted it.