Geom label lost after expanding partition

[Mark Saad]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Kevin Oberman <kob6558 at 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 at gmail.com
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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 ?


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