gpt label missing after adding gjournal

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Tue Aug 12 15:26:18 UTC 2014


On Tue, 12 Aug 2014, RW wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 08:00:34 -0600 (MDT)
> Warren Block wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 12 Aug 2014, RW wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>
>>> and then I created gp0home.journal and  gp0rest.eli.journal
>>>
>>> when I rebooted gp0home was missing from /dev/gpt
>>>
>>> $ ls  /dev/gpt
>>> gp0boot gp0rest gp0root gp0swap gp0usr  gp0var
>>>
>>> The gjournal partition is recognized as
>>> /dev/ada1p6.journal and can be mounted, but I can't mount it with
>>> the gpt label.
>>>
>>> Anyone know what's going on?
>>
>> Mounting a device, or that device being used by another device, can
>> cause the labels to be hidden.
>
> The label is missing at boot time. I only mounted  /dev/ada1p6.journal
> once just to check it worked - nothing changed when I unmounted it.

Well, the gjournal metadata is still present on that partition.  If the 
gjournal kernel module is loaded, it will automount.  (I think, I have 
not used gjournal.)

So maybe 'gjournal stop ada1p6.journal'.


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