Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 00:24:44 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> To: Sumedh Wale <wale@cs.uiuc.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help ! messed up disklabel Message-ID: <19991206002444.C13191@florence.pavilion.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9912051735560.10953-100000@kamin.cs.uiuc.edu> References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9912051735560.10953-100000@kamin.cs.uiuc.edu>
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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
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