Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 10:01:23 -0700 From: paul beard <paulbeard@mac.com> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: restoring disklabel from an active disk? Message-ID: <3D418063.3080506@mac.com> References: <200207261628.g6QGSku19423@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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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
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