From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 27 00:05:26 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59C4F106566C for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:05:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd@dannysplace.net) Received: from mailgw.dannysplace.net (mailgw.dannysplace.net [204.109.56.184]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21EEF8FC14 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:05:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [203.206.171.212] (helo=[192.168.10.10]) by mailgw.dannysplace.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:CAMELLIA256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.72 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1P01E6-00035b-No; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:05:53 +1000 Message-ID: <4C9FDFBC.8030406@dannysplace.net> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:05:16 +1000 From: Danny Carroll User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Simmons References: <4C9AC1F6.90305@dannysplace.net> <201009231340.o8NDeNl5017806@higson.cam.lispworks.com> In-Reply-To: <201009231340.o8NDeNl5017806@higson.cam.lispworks.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authenticated-User: danny X-Authenticator: plain X-Exim-Version: 4.72 (build at 12-Jul-2010 18:31:29) X-Date: 2010-09-27 10:05:51 X-Connected-IP: 203.206.171.212:55109 X-Message-Linecount: 32 X-Body-Linecount: 17 X-Message-Size: 1299 X-Body-Size: 571 X-Received-Count: 1 X-Recipient-Count: 2 X-Local-Recipient-Count: 2 X-Local-Recipient-Defer-Count: 0 X-Local-Recipient-Fail-Count: 0 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 203.206.171.212 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: fbsd@dannysplace.net X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on damka.dannysplace.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mailgw.dannysplace.net) Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Devices disappeared after drive shuffle - or - how to recover and mount a slice with UFS partitions. X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: fbsd@dannysplace.net List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:05:26 -0000 On 23/09/2010 11:40 PM, Martin Simmons wrote: >>>>>> 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. > Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately I've already wiped the slices and re-partitioned with gpart. Gpart seems to be ok. I'm not too worried about it all. I just thought it was interesting enough to share. -D