Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 00:37:22 -0500 (CDT) From: Bruce Albrecht <bruce@zuhause.mn.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Help! I think I wiped out a disk label Message-ID: <199804060537.AAA01237@zuhause.mn.org>
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I just did an fdisk -f <file> without specifying the drive name, and it wrote a new label to the wrong drive (oops). I don't have a copy of the fdisk for that drive, or I'd just rewrite it. The machine seems to be running just fine even the the label is totally wrong, so I know that the system somewhere knows where at least two of the slices are located, but I figure that I won't be able to reboot. Is there any way for me to extract the real locations so that I don't have to reload FreeBSD, Win95 and WinNT (fortunately, everything was backed up this afternoon, so I wouldn't lose anything except about 3-5 hours for the restores). Also, and the reason why I messed up in the first place, I'm getting: Apr 6 00:02:13 zuhause /kernel: sd4: cannot find label (no disk label) Apr 6 00:02:13 zuhause /kernel: sd4s2: cannot find label (no disk label) in the syslog and disklabel reports: disklabel: ioctl DIOCWDINFO: No space left on device on two of three identical drives. Any ideas on where I should go from here? The drives are basic empty, so it wouldn't be a major deal to recreate the partition tables with NT's disk adminstrator, if that would be the easiest solution. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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