Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:35:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: paulbeard@mac.com (paul beard) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: restoring disklabel from an active disk? Message-ID: <200207252335.g6PNZJi16204@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <3D4082EE.7080104@mac.com> from "paul beard" at Jul 25, 2002 03:59:58 PM
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> > Assuming I work out the partition sizes with the output of df -k, > is there a way to determine the starting point for the slice that > contains all my BSD partitions? Now you are really talking fdisk stuff, not disklabel. That's a different thing entirely and it really is relative to the whole disk. Since I generally have either the whole disk given to FreeBSd or split between MS and FreeBSD where disklabel doesn't pay attention the MS slice, I could be a little out of your specific situation. But, try looking at the disk with fdisk with no extra flags - just the main disk name like da0 without slice info. like 'fdisk da0' and it will print out what it thinks the slices are. FreeBSD slices will have a sysid of 165. How it starts and ends will depend a little on the disk itself unless it is a SCSI disk (then you are lucky). ////jerry > > As long as I don't reboot, things seem to be hunky-dory, but > that's not the most practical way to continue. > > > -- > Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / > paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 > > http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype > > Satellite Safety Tip #14: > If you see a bright streak in the sky coming at you, duck. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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