From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 12 17:17:43 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8046016A41F; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 17:17:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from flz@xbsd.org) Received: from smtp.xbsd.org (xbsd.org [82.233.2.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0311143D46; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 17:17:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from flz@xbsd.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.xbsd.org [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.xbsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73FF2118A6; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 19:17:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp.xbsd.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (srv1.xbsd.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 25380-02; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 19:17:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [163.5.255.65] (socks.epitech.net [163.5.255.65]) by smtp.xbsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C51C117BB; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 19:17:32 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4325B826.1080906@xbsd.org> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 19:17:26 +0200 From: Florent Thoumie User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050824) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andreas Klemm References: <20050911103410.GA9536@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> <4324426E.4010503@osoft.us> <20050911182450.GA992@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> <1126513851.1894.20.camel@cream.xbsd.org> <20050912164436.GA98313@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> In-Reply-To: <20050912164436.GA98313@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at xbsd.org Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: need hints to recover lost FreeBSD partition entries in MBR ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 17:17:43 -0000 Andreas Klemm wrote: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:30:51AM +0200, Florent Thoumie wrote: > >>Le Dimanche 11 septembre 2005 à 20:24 +0200, Andreas Klemm a écrit : >> >>>fdisk -u did the trick to interactively edit the partition table. >>> >>>Confusing was then, that the previous FreeBSD partitions >>>/dev/ad4s3d and /dev/ad4s4d were not present anymore. >>> >>>I had to use /dev/ad4s3c and /dev/ad4s4. >>> >>>But now I luckily was able to mount my old filesystems. >>> >>>Am now in the process of cleaning up. >>> >>>Thanks for all the help. >> >> Too late but you might want to have a look at sysutils/testdisk. > > > hmmm ... are you sure that it not only displays the > filling of mounted filesystems ? > >>From the ports description it looks to me: > "`disktool' is a good sysadmin tool for monitoring > diskfull situations to avoid datafile corruption." That is sysutils/disktool, not sysutils/testdisk :-) -- Florent Thoumie FreeBSD Committer flz@FreeBSD.org