Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:20:55 +0100 From: Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Gonzalo Nemmi <gnemmi@gmail.com> Subject: Re: tool to recover fat partition Message-ID: <200811131420.56138.pieter@degoeje.nl> In-Reply-To: <200811121832.14105.gnemmi@gmail.com> References: <200811121832.14105.gnemmi@gmail.com>
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On Wednesday 12 November 2008, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: > So ... > > newfs_msdos /dev/insert_typo_in_here > > .. new filesystem succesfully created ... lost partition on the wrong > drive ... > > Is there a tool to recover the files on said partition in FreeBSD (7 > release)? > > Thanks for you help :) > > Regards If the destroyed parition is an UFS partition, you could try fsck_ffs'ing it. Hopefully some superblock backups are still intact. Just to be extra safe, copy the entire partition to a file, create an md device from it and fsck the md device. -- Pieter de Goeje
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