From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 20 9:12:45 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 CBCE137B858 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 09:12:39 -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 13FIw9-0006tB-00; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 12:12:37 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 (debian) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, nimrodm@bezeqint.net Subject: Re: fumbling around to find the start of my slice In-Reply-To: Message from Nimrod Mesika of "Thu, 20 Jul 2000 18:49:50 +0300." <20000720184950.A4594@localhost.bsd.net.il> References: <20000720184950.A4594@localhost.bsd.net.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 12:12:36 -0400 From: "Richard E. Hawkins" Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nimrod nodded, > Have you tried 'gpart'? It's in the ports. > gpart can find the begining of a partition. Worked for me when I > destroyed my partition table. > Try 'gpart -f' for a full scan (but read the manpage first!). Thanks. This sounds like exactly what I need. Hmm, now how to run it without a working FreeBSD system . . . I suppose I download it and see if the binary executes with the rescue disks . . . hawk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message