Re: Unable to access GPT disk partitions - No such file or directory

From: Guy Helmer <guy.helmer_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2023 13:04:24 UTC
> On Sep 13, 2023, at 10:54 PM, Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 13/09/2023 19:52, Guy Helmer wrote:
>> …
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>> dmesg -a:
>> 
>> $ dmesg -a
>> ---<<BOOT>>---
>> …
>> FreeBSD 12.0-STABLE r348375 GENERIC amd64
>> …
> Maybe not relevant to the problem, your opening post mentioned FreeBSD 13 systems alone.

Right, I had attached the broken virtual disk to a FreeBSD 12 VM I had available on the same VMware server to research and attempt to recover the filesystems. I've since updated this working VM to 13.2 and I'm getting a bit more informative error messages out of tools like fsck_ufs.

It's looking like either something trashed the superblocks, or the partition offsets were changed. 

It's quite a mystery at the moment.

Regards,
Guy