From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 29 14:35:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AADF616A4CE for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:35:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D16C43D2D for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:35:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from subhro.kar@gmail.com) Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id v18so3515417rnb for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 07:35:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.8.80 with SMTP id 80mr75383rnh; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 07:35:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.206.15 with HTTP; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 07:35:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 20:05:51 +0530 From: Subhro To: didi In-Reply-To: <415A8436.2090205@yuebing.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <415A56F2.3060300@yuebing.net> <415A6B0F.5000908@yuebing.net> <415A8436.2090205@yuebing.net> cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: corrupt disklabel, how to restore? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Subhro List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:35:58 -0000 Y means a new file system would be created Regards S. On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 11:45:26 +0200, didi wrote: > > Does : > > UFS2+S N > > in "freebsd disklabel editor" > > mean that no newfs will be created i.e that only the disklabel will be > written and the acyual filesystem be left alone? > > as opposed to > > UFS+S Y > > ? > > d-tail > > (I'm a bit worried :| ) > > > > > Subhro wrote: > > There is a key for toggling new filesystem. Probably Y..... sorry > > don't rember it. > > > > Regards > > S. > > > > > > On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:58:07 +0200, didi wrote: > > > >>It's partitioned and mounted from sysinstall in 5.2.1 > >> > >>And the machine rins 5.2.1 again :( > >> > >>So, I guess I could: > >> > >>use fdisk and/or disklabel from within sysinstall again. But how do I > >>prevent sysinstall from making 'newfs' ? > >> > >>Thanks & Regards D-tail > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>Subhro wrote: > >> > >>>If you have partitioned your disk as UFS2, then there is no way in > >>>which you can access them running 4.10. > >>> > >>>Regards > >>>S, > >>> > >>> > >>>On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 08:32:18 +0200, didi wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>I did what you shouldn't do. I have two disks one 80gb and one 100gb > >>>>I was not happy with FreeBSD 5.2.1 so I downgraded to 4.10. > >>>>Problem is the disklabel on my second drive somehow got corrupt, on this > >>>>drive i backed up all home/* folders etc and so on, but now I can't get > >>>>to my backup. > >>>>I really need a way to restore the disklabel. > >>>> > >>>>I have tried scan_ffs with no result is there any other way, > >>>> > >>>>The disk was mounted as ad1s1d one large slice. > >>>> > >>>>Any information could be usefull > >>>>_______________________________________________ > >>>>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > >>>>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > >>>>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > > > > > > > -- Subhro Sankha Kar School of Information Technology Block AQ-13/1 Sector V ZIP 700091 India