Odd behaviour after disk conversion (partition disappeared)
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2022 09:52:47 UTC
Hi, I have a virtual machine on Hyper-V running 12.1-RELEASE-p2. Root is mounted on /dev/da0s1a. Now we have converted the disk image from .vhdx to .vmdk to use it on a VMware workstation. Now the BSD partitions disappeared, but the thing still boots, but from /dev/ada0s1. Of course I cannot see the swap partition anymore. gpart show da0 on the old image shows: => 63 62914497 da0 MBR (30G) 63 1 - free - (512B) 64 62914495 1 freebsd [active] (30G) 62914559 1 - free - (512B) and gpart show da0s1: => 0 62914495 da0s1 BSD (30G) 0 58720256 1 freebsd-ufs (28G) 58720256 3145728 2 freebsd-swap (1.5G) 61865984 1048511 - free - (512M) on the new image gpart show ada0: => 63 62914497 da0 MBR (30G) 63 1 - free - (512B) 64 62914495 1 freebsd [active] (30G) 62914559 1 - free - (512B) and gpart show ada0s1: gpart: No such geom: ada0s1. What happened? The conversion process is supposed to make a 1:1 copy of the disk image. Cheers, harti