Solved Disappearing disk

[balanga]

It worked!!!!!

Phew!

gpart show da0

=>       34  625142381  da0  GPT  (298G)
         34       2014       - free -  (1.0M)
       2048  100720640    1  linux-data  (48G)
  100722688      65536    2  ms-basic-data  (32M)
  100788224    1048576    3  freebsd-ufs  (512M)
  101836800   10485760    4  freebsd-ufs  (5.0G)
  112322560    1114112    5  freebsd-ufs  (544M)
  113436672        648       - free -  (324K)
  113437320   20971520    7  freebsd-ufs  (10G)
  134408840       1400       - free -  (700K)
  134410240   10485760    8  linux-data  (5.0G)
  144896000   20971520    9  linux-data  (10G)
  165867520   12582912       - free -  (6.0G)
  178450432  446691976   12  freebsd-ufs  (213G)
  625142408          7       - free -  (3.5K)

 

[balanga]

FreeBSD is stricter when it comes to partition validation by default.

It is not FreeBSD's fault that you painted yourself into a corner where you cannot set a simple variable to change that default.

gdisk sorted out the problem without the need for sysctl.