From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 9 16:22: 3 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE28337B4CD for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 16:22:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from poecilotheria.netmails.net (netmails.net [12.96.164.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3EC1943E4A for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 16:22:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from subscr@poecilotheria.netmails.net) Received: (qmail 19869 invoked by uid 1012); 10 Jan 2003 00:21:27 -0000 Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 18:21:27 -0600 From: Hari Bhaskaran To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Recovering data from a faulty drive Message-ID: <20030110002127.GA19809@poecilotheria.netmails.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I seem to have lost the partition info of one of the harddisks. Is there a backup copy of partition information stored elsewhere in the disk? The long story: - Due to some hardware problem, one of the HDs stopped working. (doesn't spin at all) After trying it on couple of machines, I did manage to get it boot on one of the machine (may be the way I kept the harddisk or whatever). However, when I tried to ifconfig an interface (to move the data out), it decided to bail out again and it didn't survive the second reboot. Finally I ended up with a HDD where the disklabel shows only one partition - 'c'. A boot with fixit disk shows ad0s1 thru 4 (but it is supposed to have only one slice and then couple of BSD partitions inside. fsck on /dev/ad1s1 went OK, But that's only the root partition (I don't really care about that one). If possible, fsck on /dev/ad1s2 thru 4 bailed out with problems reading BLKS 16 thru 20. I would like to recover /usr/home. Is there any chance? I only need a couple of files recovered. Any help is appreciated. -- Hari Bhaskaran To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message