Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 15:08:51 +0200 From: Siegbert Baude <siegbert.baude@gmx.de> To: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@video2video.com> Cc: FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: Re: mount_msdos woes Message-ID: <3D511BE3.3030206@gmx.de> References: <20020806213913.I86473-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
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Hi Peter, > Yeah, I suppose that's a valid point; Floppies barely hold any > (backuppable) data besides. But had I saved `fdisk > /floppy/fdisk.out` to > a floppy I might have been able to safely (hmmmm) re-partition a blasted > HD with a krunked MBR and partition table. ;-) A couple bytes = peace of mind! As I just recovered a friend's disk with corrupted partition table last weekend (he found a bug in Norton ghost the hard way ;-) ) I can say that ports/sysutils/gpart is an extremely helpful tool. It searches the whole disk for possible partitions and did a great job: it really found all of them. After recreating the appropriate entries in the partition tables including the extended ones, everything was back. Got me a fine dinner. :-) Ciao Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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