Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 08:00:34 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gpt label missing after adding gjournal Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1408120749190.83078@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20140812131123.5a0f79fb@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <20140812131123.5a0f79fb@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On Tue, 12 Aug 2014, RW wrote: > > > I followed Warren Block's howto: > http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html > to partition a new drive like this: > > $ gpart show -l ada1 > => 34 5860533101 ada1 GPT (2.7T) > 34 6 - free - (3.0K) > 40 1024 1 gp0boot (512K) > 1064 984 - free - (492K) > 2048 8388608 2 gp0root (4.0G) > 8390656 33554432 3 gp0swap (16G) > 41945088 4194304 4 gp0var (2.0G) > 46139392 100663296 5 gp0usr (48G) > 146802688 1468006400 6 gp0home (700G) > 1614809088 4245723136 7 gp0rest (2.0T) > 5860532224 911 - free - (456K) > > 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 gp0home.journal device is using /dev/gpt/gp0home, so that device label "withers" and disappears. If you unmount /dev/ada1p6.journal, does /dev/gpt/gp0home become visible again?
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