From nobody Thu Sep 14 13:04:24 2023 X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4Rmcwh4M7rz4tMQl for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2023 13:04:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from guy.helmer@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yw1-x112f.google.com (mail-yw1-x112f.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::112f]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (128/128 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "GTS CA 1D4" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4Rmcwh3xHfz3bYk for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2023 13:04:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from guy.helmer@gmail.com) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none Received: by mail-yw1-x112f.google.com with SMTP id 00721157ae682-59b5484fbe6so11182327b3.1 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2023 06:04:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20221208; t=1694696676; x=1695301476; darn=freebsd.org; h=to:references:message-id:content-transfer-encoding:cc:date :in-reply-to:from:subject:mime-version:from:to:cc:subject:date :message-id:reply-to; bh=VCI0FKJra62An+9PuUO2hb/2uGo5WE8jhvt+lIVk8f0=; b=g0paGhzVvSFfNLuQbXUqMJ0HU9KDZClPWYiGT+TVh0f0y+GG3fYDw+J0k+rZv03j+y +nCvX7Q6nYl7LoJOdlx/D/oG+OdDayYIlj+ggOoauvhg3jO373Q0euqw7lOIUn4CcUvm 96ci3/gOQiUvglDjQe+4yweAUwy5un+b8FAR+vg8Ni2H6goyWCQ9DJ3jEcqO5oqt/V7p sWwUpwxl1AH3N+ni8HEqw4VQRQY2r7Iq9X8d54Tv6Gx6xQTh6GgBo13lEILgcoCgH3+G 0PjSvmnYOQqBLc0SkCYj2vubfgplrovdewAqIj/0FFOlPK+dvpZRaOl9vMKIZuizJyTK lLXw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20230601; t=1694696676; x=1695301476; h=to:references:message-id:content-transfer-encoding:cc:date :in-reply-to:from:subject:mime-version:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc :subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=VCI0FKJra62An+9PuUO2hb/2uGo5WE8jhvt+lIVk8f0=; b=u8nw5T8k5zy5Did7WQrJAH18SIdEhlWwRFZrYzA8sWEhwqsKe9+BXV2a5qVTq+N93/ pJT+IPCErPTkuN8+uIhiTYQjdkjwSxMCBJKItYrA1/ZlIOuRtwt3zWA1DgbPSotNN35u eJW0TgSmPm2Fjp9rrodKekJy5NlHzd6vhPRiNrcmh2qD2QY/YRIvjxe6nBZLPwXu9jDs pX51rKFVcbVxrOHw7rL0g7zxrNHanX6dqZFoTng/tjACesKJ8PjkNj/hptAFf4Peifjm Afqy+pSw7BF6gfVSOhNA1SGKuvdt0HQfFl0r55y1C5Fz098DxJvfa/YPyJ/5X1hyUJat 6qzQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AOJu0YyCYwOKkQT+SKdUgUX0J5qmaQIrdsXDQk2wJszreaOFX5qhKJ1V Vf8fVfLz9FArk0liH7s2DRuB94ivAFw= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGHT+IFwfsXr4J1jWy3UgcWBR3gKVUQe+wfTg33i//SRx6PTFl39VKvkixx1kbDOYfHv5G51Th5MlA== X-Received: by 2002:a25:2e10:0:b0:d42:d029:ff99 with SMTP id u16-20020a252e10000000b00d42d029ff99mr5255908ybu.55.1694696675758; Thu, 14 Sep 2023 06:04:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtpclient.apple (1636571-static.amesiaaa.metronetinc.net. [217.180.226.49]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 62-20020a251041000000b00d7b8a1074d4sm317111ybq.57.2023.09.14.06.04.35 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 14 Sep 2023 06:04:35 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 List-Id: Technical discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 16.0 \(3731.700.6\)) Subject: Re: Unable to access GPT disk partitions - No such file or directory From: Guy Helmer In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2023 08:04:24 -0500 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <0CAE8FD0-9F09-4CF6-A402-DF30B039DF23@gmail.com> To: Graham Perrin X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3731.700.6) X-Spamd-Bar: ---- X-Rspamd-Pre-Result: action=no action; module=replies; Message is reply to one we originated X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:15169, ipnet:2607:f8b0::/32, country:US]; TAGGED_FROM(0.00)[] X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4Rmcwh3xHfz3bYk > On Sep 13, 2023, at 10:54 PM, Graham Perrin = wrote: >=20 > On 13/09/2023 19:52, Guy Helmer wrote: >> =E2=80=A6 >>=20 >> dmesg -a: >>=20 >> $ dmesg -a >> ---<>--- >> =E2=80=A6 >> FreeBSD 12.0-STABLE r348375 GENERIC amd64 >> =E2=80=A6 > 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.=20 It's quite a mystery at the moment. Regards, Guy