Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:24:18 +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: <200811131424.19263.pieter@degoeje.nl> In-Reply-To: <200811131420.56138.pieter@degoeje.nl> References: <200811121832.14105.gnemmi@gmail.com> <200811131420.56138.pieter@degoeje.nl>
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On Thursday 13 November 2008, Pieter de Goeje wrote: > 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. Nevermind, didn't read the subject ;-). On topic, sysutils/fatback seems promising. -- Pieter de Goeje
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