From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 20 7:26: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hawkins.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73C5A37B64A for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 07:25:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hawk@hawkins.ds.psu.edu) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=hawkins.ds.psu.edu ident=hawk) by hawkins.ds.psu.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 13FHGr-0006eb-00 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 10:25:53 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 (debian) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: dochawk@psu.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: fumbling around to find the start of my slice Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 10:25:53 -0400 From: "Richard E. Hawkins" Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've tried here before, but I've figured out a bit more since then. Or should I try the developer's list? Windows thwacked my partition table, overwriting it with nonsense. I didn't realize this at first, as the bootloader sort of worked--I had to manually tell it the root device, as it kept trying to default to 3a rather than 3c. I've recovered s1, a very dated debian distribution (bo?) with ufs support. s2 is an unimportant windows install, but usable. The problem is that I don't have the exact end of the windows partition, and therefore don't know exactly where the UFS slice starts. I do, however, know to within a couple of megs where it must start from the known sizes of the partitions. I also know the size (4G) of the UFS partition. Is there a way to read the raw device, either from linux or the installation disks, and find something indicating the start of the UFS slice? Or perhaps to use a linux script to start creating a UFS partition entry, attempt to mount, and increment if not successful? Or should I be asking this question on another list? :) There's really only one file that's important to recover--my completed tax return. Unfortunately, it's a staroffice spreadsheet, and not a text file :( hawk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message