Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 23:54:30 -0400 From: "Naram Qashat" <cyberbotx@cyberbotx.com> To: "Eric Anderson" <anderson@centtech.com>, <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: fdisk partition / disklabel recovery (help!) Message-ID: <00cf01c68f66$3de93e50$fe02a8c0@metroid> References: <61325.10.20.200.100.1150219994.squirrel@10.20.200.100>
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You've also got the choice of using the program testdisk in sysutils/testdisk to try to fix your problem. It helped me when I accidently hosed the MBR and partition table on one of my drives. Naram Qashat ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Anderson" <anderson@centtech.com> To: <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 01:33 PM Subject: fdisk partition / disklabel recovery (help!) > >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 > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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