Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 12:52:41 -0400 From: Mark Saad <nonesuch@longcount.org> To: Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Stable" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Geom label lost after expanding partition Message-ID: <CAMXt9NbrFSzLjk8CdTkjrjWRgYaxbvLFcr7-mXcMR6=%2BUBWzeQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1uLiruENAp-PEuLaec4jOcDBiWv6NmzMph_xQMn%2BXjUMA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAN6yY1uLiruENAp-PEuLaec4jOcDBiWv6NmzMph_xQMn%2BXjUMA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a GPT formatted disk where I recently expanded the size of a > partition. I used "gpart resize -i 6 ada1" first to expand the > partition to use the remaining free space and then growfs to modify > the FFS file system to use the full partition. This was all done in > single-user mode, of course, but when I enter "exit" to bring the > system up, it failed to mount /usr. This was because /dev/ufs/usr did > not exist! > > I assumed that gpart "lost" the label when it resized the partition > (which looked like a minor bug to me), but I have been completely > unable to re-create the label. I first tried tunefs and then glabel. > (The handbook says glabel can be used, though the glabel man page is > explicit that it can't.) Both complete with no errors, but neither > fixes the problem. I still don't see any /dev/usf/usr. "glabel list" > does not even list the geom. > > I do get the following GEOM messages in dmesg: > GEOM: ada1p2: invalid disklabel. > GEOM: ufsid/4df4feeda0ce6d5c: invalid disklabel. > GEOM: ufs/root: invalid disklabel. > GEOM: gpt/root: invalid disklabel. > GEOM: gptid/43f0eafd-ba3a-11e0-b70a-f0def166a11e: invalid disklabel. > > but /dev/ufs/root works fine to mount /, and I have always seen these > errors and have never been able to figure out what is causing them. > > I ended up entering the actual drive node (/dev/ada1p6) into my > fstab. This works, but brings back the old issues of having to edit > the fstab any time the drive is moved. > > Does anyone have any idea how to get the labels to work again? I'm not > even sure what tool displays what label as I can label with glabel, > tunefs, and newfs > -- > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Kevin I believe the UFS or geom_labels are stuck at the end of the partition so , I can see how it would wipe them out if you resized it. Can you run "glabel status" and "glabel list" send us the results ? -- mark saad | nonesuch@longcount.org
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