From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 12 00:20:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA14275 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 00:20:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA14265 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 00:20:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA29489 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:20:49 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA02456 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:20:49 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id JAA03717 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:15:31 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603120815.JAA03717@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Clobbered partititon table .. :-( To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:15:30 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199603120213.NAA22765@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 12, 96 01:13:28 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 Or by remembering some values from an out of date backup: 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. ;-)