From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 9 16: 2:19 2002 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 9FEEB37B401 for ; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 16:02:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.mercuryfilmworks.com (host1-50-131.mercuryfilmworks.com [204.244.50.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5731843E88 for ; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 16:02:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from derrick@mail.mercuryfilmworks.com) Received: from derrick (helo=localhost) by mail.mercuryfilmworks.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 18Afay-0003Kr-00 for questions@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 09 Nov 2002 16:04:56 -0800 Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 16:04:56 -0800 (PST) From: Derrick MacPherson To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Help with lost partition info. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 I lost my partition info during an upgrade. I never actually wnet ahead with the upgrade, yet but I guess I overwrote the info that says whre my partitions are mounted, and I'm unsure whichi is which.. I don't want to map / to the wrong partition and have the /etc/master.passwd and other important files overwritten. I have the latest boot floppies, and I can get to sysinstall - I'm wondering if there is a way to get the proper info off the disks? I have a large partition that I can overwrite if it's worth doing a minimal install to that partition to read teh origional fstab file, but is there a easier or better way? I have to get this back up ASAP, so anything that is quick and easy (HA!) would be great... Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message