Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:15:30 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Clobbered partititon table .. :-( Message-ID: <199603120815.JAA03717@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199603120213.NAA22765@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 12, 96 01:13:28 pm
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As Bruce Evans wrote: > Or by remembering some values from an out of date backup: > > $root fdisk /var/backups/mbr.rsd0 > fdisk: Can't get file status of /dev/r/var/ > Cannot open disk /dev/r/var/ (No such file or directory) > $root mail -s "someone broke device independence of fdisk" \ > j@uriah.heep.sax.de # :-) Hehehe. Do you perchance know the `sombody' above so i could forward him the mail? :) Ok, i've also stumpled across this. I've already thought about rewriting fdisk with libdisk. Though this is perhaps a bit weird: i'm the one with the least personal interest in working fdisk partitions, i cannot even remember one of the disks around me that would have more than a FreeBSD slice. :-> -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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