From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 26 10: 1:36 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 21C4E37B400 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 10:01:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97D3143E5E for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 10:01:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paulbeard@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([12.231.115.57]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020726170132.EHEF8192.sccrmhc01.attbi.com@mac.com>; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 17:01:32 +0000 Message-ID: <3D418063.3080506@mac.com> Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 10:01:23 -0700 From: paul beard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020528 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jerry McAllister Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: restoring disklabel from an active disk? References: <200207261628.g6QGSku19423@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > I guess I have forgotten what you said about your original setup. I had ad0s1 as a windows partition and ad0s2[a..g] for FreeBSD. > Do you need two slices? What was in the "other" slice? > Can you read anything from the disk - files? If so, something > is still working and is probably OK. If not, you are probably > beyond the possibility of recovery short of going to one of those > companies that specialize in recovering nuked disks. I think I'm close to getting back to level ground. fdisk saw the disk as one huge FreeBSD partition, so I re-ran it to take the first third for Windows and the rest for FreeBSD. That was what I originally did, but there's a whole lot of room for error. The disk works fine: I have access to all my files, I have suspended and resumed, I'm using it right now. > Generally if a new label is actually written to the disk, things > are usually nuked and you have to start over. Once you get in to > that area, it is getting beyond me. > Me too: I'm sure a reinstall will be happening Real Soon Now. I have backed up my home and grabbed a list of all the ports I've installed, so I'll lose nothing more than some time. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype CChheecckk yyoouurr dduupplleexx sswwiittcchh.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message