Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 19:17:26 +0200 From: Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org> To: Andreas Klemm <andreas@FreeBSD.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: need hints to recover lost FreeBSD partition entries in MBR ... Message-ID: <4325B826.1080906@xbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20050912164436.GA98313@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> 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>
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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
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