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From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall label.c
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On  7 Jan, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <200201070751.g077pOs51981@freefall.freebsd.org>
>             Matt Dillon <dillon@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> :   Add 'R'ecover option that deletes a partition and attempts
> :   to recover its space into the previous partition.  Revert 'D'elete
> :   to not attempt to recover any space.
> 
> I had hoped when I read the first part of this that the 'R' command
> would recover a corrupted disk lable from magic numbers at the start
> of partitions... :-)

http://www.leidinger.net/FreeBSD/ffsrescue.tar.gz (~3k) at least helps a
little bit if you need to recreate a disk label. It only does read only
operations, so you can test it on any disk (with ffs partitions) without
fear.

Bye,
Alexander.

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