From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 26 10:51:38 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 EF03637B400 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 10:51:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A57543E4A for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 10:51:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id g6QHpWS19814; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 13:51:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200207261751.g6QHpWS19814@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Subject: Re: restoring disklabel from an active disk? To: paulbeard@mac.com (paul beard) Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 13:51:31 -0400 (EDT) Cc: jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu (Jerry McAllister), questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3D418063.3080506@mac.com> from "paul beard" at Jul 26, 2002 10:01:23 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Hi, We seem to be leap-frog posting. > > 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. OK. That makes sense. > 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. Well, now I am unsure of where you got the fdisk output you sent in the other message - before or after doing an fdisk. I can't imagine being able to get stuff off the disk if you actually changed the slicing though. > 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. Well, if you have everything you need reliably backed up, then doing a reboot can't hurt too much other than the possible time it takes to rebild everything. I would check the quality of the backup first - try reading several files from it. ////jerry > > -- > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message