From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 5 16:24:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [212.74.0.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4327514D90 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 16:24:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joe@florence.pavilion.net) Received: (from joe@localhost) by florence.pavilion.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id AAA13749; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 00:24:44 GMT (envelope-from joe) Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 00:24:44 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser To: Sumedh Wale Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help ! messed up disklabel Message-ID: <19991206002444.C13191@florence.pavilion.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, Lees House, 21-23 Dyke Road, Brighton, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Search for my name on the -hackers mailing list. I posted a piece of C code a couple of times within the last six months or so that'll help you to reconstruct your disklabel. Good luck. Joe On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 05:54:11PM -0600, Sumedh Wale wrote: > > Hi! > > I somehow messed up the disklabel on one of the freebsd partitions. The > partition contained two slices. I can still use the first slice by > mounting the original slice (/dev/wd0s3e) -- I can even use the slice in > linux by mounting the primary partition (/dev/hda3) as of type ufs. > However the other slice cannot be mounted -- gives incorrect superblock. > > I found it strange that even though the original disklabel has been > erased, I can still use the first slice. > > I hope that the second slice can be recovered. Is there a way? > > > Thanks a lot. > > sumedh. -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: How many times have you booted today? Technical Manager Viagra for your server (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@uk.freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message