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Date:      Sat, 12 Jul 1997 08:47:42 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        weasel@temp.harborcom.net (Bradley Reynolds)
Subject:   Re: Data Recovery
Message-ID:  <19970712084742.LO30344@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970711215040.1592A-100000@temp.harborcom.net>; from Bradley Reynolds on Jul 11, 1997 21:53:16 -0400
References:  <199707112201.PAA25774@phaeton.artisoft.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.970711215040.1592A-100000@temp.harborcom.net>

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As Bradley Reynolds wrote:

> I was wondering if someone out there could help me with a
> data recovery problem.  It seems that the disklabel on one
> of our scsi drives magically disappeared.  

If it's really only the disklabel, it's not a big deal: relabel the
disk.

If you have forgotten where your partitions are, search the disk for
the filesystem `magic', this should at least get you those partitions
boundaries back that have filesystems on it.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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