gpart weirdness: diskid/DISK-3EV0P4PZ00007250010X GPT (17G)

[Anton Shterenlikht]

>From: Mark Felder <feld at FreeBSD.org>
>To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: gpart weirdness: diskid/DISK-3EV0P4PZ00007250010X  GPT  (17G)
>Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 06:56:17 -0500
>
>On Wed, Oct 9, 2013, at 4:33, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
>> # gpart show
>> =>      34  35566411  da1  GPT  (17G)
>>         34  35566411       - free -  (17G)
>> 
>> =>      34  35566411  diskid/DISK-3EV0P4PZ00007250010X  GPT  (17G)
>>         34  35566411                                    - free -  (17G)
>> 
>> =>      34  35566411  da2  GPT  (17G)
>>         34  35566411       - free -  (17G)
>> 
>> =>      34  35566411  diskid/DISK-3EV0PWCX000072500ZNJ  GPT  (17G)
>>         34  35566411                                    - free -  (17G)
>> 
>> # 
>> 
>
>This is normal. Gpart is showing you both the physical dev versions of
>the devices and the GPT label versions of the devices. I'll admit it can
>be confusing, though.

Well, I haven't seen this before.
And it only shows this for some disks, not all:

# gpart show
=>       34  143374671  da0  GPT  (68G)
         34     409600    1  efi  (200M)
     409634  142965071    2  freebsd-ufs  (68G)

=>      34  35566411  da1  GPT  (17G)
        34  35566411       - free -  (17G)

=>      34  35566411  da2  GPT  (17G)
        34  35566411       - free -  (17G)

=>       34  142255508  da3  GPT  (67G)
         34  142255508    1  freebsd-ufs  (67G)

=>      34  35566411  diskid/DISK-3EV0P4PZ00007250010X  GPT  (17G)
        34  35566411                                    - free -  (17G)

=>      34  35566411  diskid/DISK-3EV0PWCX000072500ZNJ  GPT  (17G)
        34  35566411                                    - free -  (17G)

=>       34  142255508  da4  GPT  (67G)
         34  142255508    1  freebsd-swap  (67G)

=>       34  142255508  da5  GPT  (67G)
         34  142255508    1  freebsd-ufs  (67G)

=>       34  286744118  da6  GPT  (136G)
         34  286744118    1  freebsd-ufs  (136G)

# 

Thanks

Anton