From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 23 11: 1:53 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 7F2F837B400 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 11:01:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.bogfrog.com (ctc-static-dsl-70-24.brainerd.net [64.90.70.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0760343E4A for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 11:01:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ejenkins@bogfrog.com) Received: from bogfrog.com (fuujin.bogfrog.com. [192.168.0.21]) by mail.bogfrog.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6NHmGg20919 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 12:48:16 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from ejenkins@bogfrog.com) Message-ID: <3D3D9AE3.8040708@bogfrog.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 13:05:23 -0500 From: "Erich M. Jenkins" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020508 Netscape6/6.2.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: disklabel was clobbered Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 have recently had a problem with the disklabel on a drive in one of my servers. I had just installed an additional hard drive and was running a backup when the system halted due to a kernel fault (caused by dead RAM, as I later found out) and fsck managed to clobber my disklabel. The drive had about 40 gigs of data on it that would be nice to have back. I've tried gpart and numerous other open source and commercial packages, though none are able to read the partition or disklabel information. After running a hex dump on the drive, I was pleased to find the data still intact, even though the drive is a bit confused. Any suggestions would be welcome. Erich M. Jenkins Sys Admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message