Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 11:52:08 +0200 From: Siegbert Baude <Siegbert.Baude@gmx.de> To: David David <ddavid_3@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MBR, Partition File recover Message-ID: <3E9D27C8.7060803@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <20030416012736.GA62320@webserver.get-linux.org> References: <20030416010121.GB61362@webserver.get-linux.org> <20030416011940.27587.qmail@web11307.mail.yahoo.com> <20030416012736.GA62320@webserver.get-linux.org>
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Hi David, Josh explained the gpart method perfectly, this tool once did a great job for my friend's disk, too. :-) To make things less complicated in cases of future disaster, just keep a printout of your partition table in a safe place. > Before i do this, is there a way of making a complete copy of the > drive first? I can store it on another drive in the system. I've been > going through dd man page, and searching on the net, but have not yet > found a way of doing. dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad1 bs=128k To backup your first hard disk to your second hard disk. The second one of course must be at least as big as your first one. Short annotation: bs=128k speeds up backup significantly for IDE disks. For SCSI the best value with standard settings is bs=64k IIRC. To be sure, search the archives, I'm sure that it was posted by Greg Lehey. Ciao Siegbert
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