From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 27 21:54: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E278637B422 for ; Sun, 27 May 2001 21:54:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 67513 invoked by uid 100); 28 May 2001 04:53:57 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15121.55781.85815.353908@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 23:53:57 -0500 To: Bill Moran Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disaster recovery - killed the partition table on my bootdisk In-Reply-To: <72529268@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 Bill Moran types: > rene@xs4all.nl wrote: > > My question is very simple; can I still resque the data on my da0 disk, > > and if so, how? I know the approximate layout of my disk; it was > > 300M for / > > 1500M for /usr > > 200M for /var > > but ofcourse, I am probably forgetting how much /swap I had ;((( > You can try, but I doubt you'll be able to recover it unless you know > the EXACT layout. The lesson to be learned is that you should always have copies of your disklabel output someplace save. Printed and stored with your offsite backups, for instance. In a note on your palm. Posted to an appropriate netgroup so you can get it via daja news or something similar. Stored in a data track on the audio CD you made for your mother-in-law. Whatever - just so it's somewhere where you can get to it if the computer it's documenting is kaput. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message