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Date:      Thu, 16 Aug 2012 20:33:53 -0700
From:      Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com>
To:        =?UTF-8?Q?Olivier_Cochard=2DLabb=C3=A9?= <olivier@cochard.me>
Cc:        "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Stable" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Geom label lost after expanding partition
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On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Olivier Cochard-Labb=C3=A9
> <olivier@cochard.me> wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 6:30 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've met the same problem, check this PR for a dirty workaround:
>
> Yep. It is certainly a dirty fix, but it should work. Looks like
> glabel is doing the right thing, though a message would have been
> nice.
>
> Rebuilding now. Thanks so much!

As I expected, it works fine. I've got my /dev/ufs/usr back!
Thanks!
--=20
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com



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