From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 23 08:48:08 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52FB216A4CE for ; Sat, 23 Oct 2004 08:48:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp2.dnainternet.net (smtp2.dnainternet.net [62.240.72.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E84E43D45 for ; Sat, 23 Oct 2004 08:48:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from erik.u@dnainternet.net) Received: from b-204-211.cable.kpy.customers.dnainternet.fi ([212.149.204.211]:55973smtp2.dnainternet.net with ESMTP id S1228763AbUJWIsH (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Oct 2004 11:48:07 +0300 Message-ID: <417A1AC8.2090202@dnainternet.net> Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 11:48:08 +0300 From: Erik Udo User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20041012) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <417A17B5.20501@dnainternet.net> In-Reply-To: <417A17B5.20501@dnainternet.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: label editing X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 08:48:08 -0000 I'm so ashamd for sending the answer right after the question: So i found T(Toggle Newfs) option in sysinstall's label editor, and made that one partition i had in it. Then the label editor used fsck_ffs to recover it. I JUST LOVE FREEBSD!! Just when i thought all my data was lost! Well, atleast someone having the same problem might find my posts.. Erik Udo wrote: > So i got my partition back, and succesfully mounted it. All > the old data was there. Now i just need my old slice on that > partition back. > > Here's what happend in chronological order of what i did: > - I boot 4.4 installdisk to fix mbr > - I set ad0s1 as bootable, and write changes > - Then i boot to HD installation of FreeBSD 5.3RC1 > - And then i notice, my 150GB partition is gone, it's now > 100GB 4.2BSD and 50GB unused > - I delete 100GB partition, and merge 100GB and 50GB into > one partition, and save changes. > -I run gpart and scan_ffs unsuccesfully > -Then i figured i can mount /dev/ad0s3, and that i didn't need labels. > -And now i'm messing with disklabel -e to recover my old partition. > > Now remember i only did one slice on that partition some > time ago using sysinstall. It was ad0s3d. > > Here's what bsdlabel -e /dev/ad0s3 gives me: > > # /dev/ad0s3: > 8 partitions: > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] > a: 398297072 16 unused 0 0 > c: 335389005 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, > don't edit > > Then i try to save it, with no modifications, i get: > > /tmp/EdDk.tiDLEmTpvt: 5 lines, 223 characters. > partition a: partition extends past end of unit > re-edit the label? [y]: > > > So i'm asking for correct changes i could try to recover my > lost slice. > _______________________________________________ > 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" >