From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 5 22:45:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA25567 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 22:45:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from abby.skypoint.net (abby.skypoint.net [199.86.32.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA25507 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 22:45:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bruce@zuhause.mn.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by abby.skypoint.net (8.8.7/jl 1.3) with UUCP id AAA20514 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 00:45:30 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from bruce@localhost) by zuhause.mn.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) id AAA01237; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 00:37:22 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 00:37:22 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199804060537.AAA01237@zuhause.mn.org> From: Bruce Albrecht To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Help! I think I wiped out a disk label X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 20.3 "Vatican City" XEmacs Lucid Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I just did an fdisk -f 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