Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 17:30:11 +0200 (CEST) From: Svein Halvor Halvorsen <svein-freebsd-questions@theloosingend.net> To: Henrik W Lund <henrik.w.lund@broadpark.no> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: accidental fdisk -BI Message-ID: <20041017172502.P872@maren.thelosingend.net> In-Reply-To: <41724FE4.20506@broadpark.no> References: <417183FE.1000102@atopia.net> <41724FE4.20506@broadpark.no>
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[Henrik W Lund, 2004-10-17] > What this means is that any other slices you had on the disk will be gone. I > don't know what disk layout you had, but something tells me that you may have > erased /usr, /var and /tmp (if you used the default fdisk layout when > installing FreeBSD, that is). I'm no expert, but I think this _can_ lead to > complications. Note that BIOS partitions are not the same as BSD partitions. The former is known as slices in BSD. fdisk -BI /dev/da0 will initialize the disk for one *slice* covering the whole disk. BSD partitions inside this slice will not be afflicted, so /usr, /var and /tmp are probably still intact as well :) If there were other slices on the disk (bios partitions) the original partition table may be recovered using sysutils/gpart. Svein Halvor
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