From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 11 9:47:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0352014C59; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 09:47:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA13180; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 18:46:51 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des) To: Josef Karthauser Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disk label recovery - request for suggestions. References: <19990808185112.A99557@pavilion.net> <19990811171514.X88035@pavilion.net> <19990811173535.Y88035@pavilion.net> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 11 Aug 1999 18:46:51 +0200 In-Reply-To: Josef Karthauser's message of "Wed, 11 Aug 1999 17:35:35 +0100" Message-ID: Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Josef Karthauser writes: > On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 06:23:24PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Josef Karthauser writes: > > > Ahha - of course. Ok, let me re-phrase the question then. By looking > > > at the contents of the superblocks on a UFS file system it's possible to > > > reconstruct a disklabel for a slice. > > Well, it's possible to reconstruct the label information for *that > > particular UFS file system*, since if you know the location of the > > superblock (or one of its backup copies), you can determine the offset > > and size of the FS. It won't tell you anything about *other* > > partitions though. > That's ok, because each slice has its _own_ label. If the bios partition > table loses it's mind that's a little more work :). You're confusing partitions and slices. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message