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    Lost pfsense0 slice

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Problems Installing or Upgrading pfSense Software
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      kubo999
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      Hello,

      I recently switched to embedded system and been playing with my ALIX board. I have a 4G compact flash. I have tried upgrading but have pulled the embedded version instead of the nanobsd upgrade image version. Realizing this, I made the system boot off the second slice and tried to duplicate this slice (ad0s1) to the primary slice (ad0s0). This might have screwed up the compact flash so I ended up with just one good slice. Is there any manual procedure we can do aside from re-flashing the compact flash to recover?

      Some displays:

      pfsense2:~#  df
      Filesystem        1K-blocks  Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
      /dev/ufs/pfsense1  1898582 81050 1665645    5%    /
      devfs                    1    1      0  100%    /dev
      /dev/md0              39406    4  36250    0%    /var/tmp
      /dev/md1              59246  6672  47836    12%    /var
      /dev/ufs/cf          50527  1318  45167    3%    /cf
      devfs                    1    1      0  100%    /var/dhcpd/dev
      pfsense2:~#  ls -l /dev/ufs
      total 0
      crw-r–---  1 root  operator    0,  73 Nov 12 02:46 cf
      crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0,  75 Nov 12 02:46 pfsense1

      pfsense2:~#  fdisk ad0
      ******* Working on device /dev/ad0 *******
      parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
      cylinders=7964 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)

      Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
      parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
      cylinders=7964 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)

      Media sector size is 512
      Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
      Information from DOS bootblock is:
      The data for partition 1 is:
      sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
          start 63, size 3861585 (1885 Meg), flag 80 (active)
              beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
              end: cyl 758/ head 15/ sector 63
      The data for partition 2 is:
      sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
          start 3861711, size 3861585 (1885 Meg), flag 0
              beg: cyl 759/ head 1/ sector 1;
              end: cyl 493/ head 15/ sector 63
      The data for partition 3 is:
      sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
          start 7723296, size 102816 (50 Meg), flag 0
              beg: cyl 494/ head 0/ sector 1;
              end: cyl 595/ head 15/ sector 63
      The data for partition 4 is:
      <unused>pfsense2:~#</unused>

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