From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 26 10: 4:13 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 045E437B400 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 10:04:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43A4043E65 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 10:04:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paulbeard@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([12.231.115.57]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020726170410.YVYL1451.sccrmhc02.attbi.com@mac.com>; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 17:04:10 +0000 Message-ID: <3D418100.3080908@mac.com> Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 10:04:00 -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: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: restoring disklabel from an active disk? References: <200207261635.g6QGZv619465@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: > Another Hmmm. > Disklabel has a '-r' flag that says read the label on disk. > Does that get you anything? > If so, probably all you need to do is reboot. > Also, try fdisk -s (if you have FreeBSd >= 4.xx). > /dev/ad0: 1559 cyl 240 hd 63 sec Part Start Size Type Flags 1: 63 7847217 0xa5 0x00 2: 7847280 15709680 0xa5 0x80 If I knew how to verify where the boundary between the partitions is, I'd feel a lot more comfortable. This does feel an awful lot like rebuilding an airplane engine in flight, but I have the luxury of not needing to land anytime soon. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank. -- Woody Allen, "Without Feathers" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message