From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 14 7:48:15 2002 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 7E79A37B401 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 07:48:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mel-rto2.wanadoo.fr (smtp-out-2.wanadoo.fr [193.252.19.254]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69BF143E75 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 07:48:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ketanu@wanadoo.fr) Received: from mel-rta10.wanadoo.fr (193.252.19.193) by mel-rto2.wanadoo.fr (6.5.007) id 3D5392B6001EF301 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 16:48:10 +0200 Received: from ketanu.dyndns.org (80.14.10.77) by mel-rta10.wanadoo.fr (6.5.007) id 3D49FFDD004B13DD for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 16:48:10 +0200 Received: from ketanu.dyndns.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ketanu.dyndns.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g7EEnePS050848 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 16:49:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ketanu@wanadoo.fr) Received: (from michael@localhost) by ketanu.dyndns.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g7EEnd5u050845; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 16:49:39 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ketanu@wanadoo.fr) X-Authentication-Warning: ketanu.dyndns.org: michael set sender to ketanu@wanadoo.fr using -f To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using gpart to identify likely partitions References: <20020814022650.Q34036-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> From: Ketanu Organization: (none) Date: 14 Aug 2002 16:49:39 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20020814022650.Q34036-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Message-ID: <87it2dpkak.fsf@ketanu.dyndns.org> Lines: 11 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I used gpart (under Debian GNU/Linux) one time: a friend of mine was playing around with partitions, LILO and MBR, and my a mistake, he copied the MBR of an HDD onto the one of another, and the Partition table was overwritten, His HDD was put into my box, and we ran gpart on it, and it succeed in guessing the crashed partition table (there was ext2fs, extended partitions, and maybe vfat filesystems). -- Ketanu - RSA PGP Key ID: 0x20D90C12 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message