Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2015 20:02:12 +0200 From: Anton Sayetsky <vsasjason@gmail.com> To: Perry Hutchison <perryh@pluto.rain.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: resizing a memstick image, on FreeBSD 8 Message-ID: <CAA2O=b-opboJzWVRgFMt3-NSt7ScXUXLjmhDRfxhu92N3m7Gpg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5663c0d6.8giker3InrIlK8n%2B%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <566299bf.2z11XFWfUMRFyXGs%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <CAA2O=b92G7Zjb8AOoSCDaaM_-a13qM-E_Cj6hjfUurn3%2Bu3zWg@mail.gmail.com> <5663c0d6.8giker3InrIlK8n%2B%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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2015-12-06 7:00 GMT+02:00 Perry Hutchison <perryh@pluto.rain.com>: > Is it possible to accomplish that on the FreeBSD 8 system that I'm > using to set things up for the FreeBSD 10.2 install? While it is > the FreeBSD 8 kernel that suggests "recovery": > GEOM: da2: the secondary GPT table is corrupt or invalid. > GEOM: da2: using the primary only -- recovery suggested. > > the FreeBSD 8 gpart apparently does not understand "recover": > # gpart recover da2 > gpart: Unknown command: recover. > usage: gpart add [-b start] [-s size] -t type [-i index] [-l label] [-f flags] geom > gpart bootcode [-b bootcode] [-p partcode] [-i index] [-f flags] geom > gpart commit geom > gpart create -s scheme [-n entries] [-f flags] provider > gpart delete -i index [-f flags] geom > gpart destroy [-f flags] geom > gpart modify -i index [-l label] [-t type] [-f flags] geom > gpart set -a attrib -i index [-f flags] geom > gpart show [-lr] [geom ...] > gpart undo geom > gpart unset -a attrib -i index [-f flags] geom > gpart help > gpart list [name ...] > gpart status [-s] [name ...] > gpart load [-v] > gpart unload [-v] > > I didn't find any mention of recovering from a missing or corrupted > secondary GPT in either the FreeBSD 8 Handbook or the FreeBSD 8 > gpart(8) manpage. You can recover GPT after updating to 10. Even if one of the GPT copies corrupted, disk is fully functional.
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