Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:33:14 -0500 (CDT) From: "Eric Anderson" <anderson@centtech.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: fdisk partition / disklabel recovery (help!) Message-ID: <61325.10.20.200.100.1150219994.squirrel@10.20.200.100>
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>From the subject, you probably already know my dilemma. After booting a linux livecd (I'll refrain from naming the distro), my laptop no longer has any partitions. Now, the drive was not newfs'ed with any other OS, so I believe only the boot loader and partitioning are messed up. I see an ffsrecov tool, that could probably help me, but I want to make sure I don't make any bad decisions here. So, my partitioning was something like: ad0 ad0s1 DOS ad0s2 ?? ad0s3 ?? ad0s4 Linux root / swap FreeBSD was on either ad0s2 or ad0s3, I can't recall which, but I believe it was ad0s3. I had 3 partitions (/, /alt, /home) and a swap. I'm running the ffsrecov tool now, but it appears to be very slow chugging through the disk. Is there any additional ways I can find the partitioning scheme, or find the bsdlabel's on the disk? Does anyone know of a command line (dd+some tools/perl/etc) way to find the bsdlabels? Once the bsdlabels are found, then what? Also - if I rewrite the bsdlabel exactly as it was before, I should be in business, correct? I'm in a very bad spot without this machine (happened at a particularly in-opportune time also, of course), so I'd appreciate any help anyone could provide. Thanks in advance! Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Anderson anderson@centtech.com Centaur Technology You have my continuous partial attention -------------------------------------------------------------
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