Here, I've given for sure your partition table is "fermenting" (like a good wine) underneeth the disklabel and it isn't broken.
Otherwise you will need to start over with your system installation. -- dan pls connect by [email protected] or surf my bsd blog at bsd.numode.eu From: dan <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: Jun 15, 2026 21:43:10 Subject: Re: Sysupgrade failing on a system without MBR/GPT (disklabel directly on disk) > As I think that b comes reserved, I would play around g eventually. > > Starting by an other system is undubtly more easy and without using g you can > fix the broken system by paxing a by pax -w, fixing the disklabel, then newfs > a, and paxing back by pax -r -pe to a. > > If you have only that system, more or less (at your own risk only after dbl > checked the suggested list): > > 1. I would pax -w all the content of a to /home/mya.pax; > 2. I would umount /usr/X11R6 > 3. I would copy content of g to /usr/X11R6/; > 4. I would free g; > 5. I would pax -r -pe content of mya.pax into g; > 6. I would edit /etc/fstab: mounting g to /, commenting the mount of a; > 7. I would restart the system; > 8. I would fix the label of a and free a; > 9. I would pax -r -pe content of /home/mya.pax into a; > 10. I would edit /etc/fstab: uncommenting the mount of a to /, commenting the > mount of g; > 11. I would restart the system; > 12. I would free g; > 13. I would move content of f/X11R6 back to g. > > Pls dbl check to work on the correct partitions in both the cases. > > Hope is helpful. > > -- > dan > pls connect by [email protected] > or surf my bsd blog at bsd.numode.eu > > From: Zeljko Jovanovic <[email protected]> > To: dan <[email protected]>; [email protected] > Date: Jun 15, 2026 19:09:13 > Subject: Re: Sysupgrade failing on a system without MBR/GPT (disklabel > directly on disk) > >> Here is the file containing the first 2048 bytes of the disk, >> attached to this message. >> >> This is the output of "disklabel sd0" command: >> >> # /dev/rsd0c: >> type: SCSI >> disk: SCSI disk >> label: Virtual disk >> duid: f5c72aedee148bac >> flags: >> bytes/sector: 512 >> sectors/track: 63 >> tracks/cylinder: 255 >> sectors/cylinder: 16065 >> cylinders: 7832 >> total sectors: 125829120 >> boundstart: 0 >> boundend: 125829120 >> >> 16 partitions: >> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] >> a: 2097152 0 4.2BSD 2048 16384 12960 # / >> b: 8388608 2097152 swap # none >> c: 125829120 0 unused >> d: 2097152 10485760 4.2BSD 2048 16384 12960 # /tmp >> e: 69206016 12582912 4.2BSD 2048 16384 12960 # /var >> f: 10485760 81788928 4.2BSD 2048 16384 12960 # /usr >> g: 2097152 92274688 4.2BSD 2048 16384 12960 # >> /usr/X11R6 >> h: 20971520 94371840 4.2BSD 2048 16384 12960 # >> /usr/local >> k: 10485760 115343360 4.2BSD 2048 16384 12960 # /home
