Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 17:37:49 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu> To: Gopakumar H Pillai <gopu@global.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help in data recovery Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971029173051.6333A-100000@server.local.sunyit.edu> In-Reply-To: <34578D90.F83245A7@global.com>
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this doesn't seem trivial because you have overwritten the partition imformation on the drive, the only solution i see is if you can find a utility for scanning a disk for what could possibly be the begging of a partition... i don't know of such a util though... anyone? On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Gopakumar H Pillai wrote: > I am a sysadmin, fairly new to the job. The OS is FreeBSD 2.2.2. I had a > disk sd0s1e of 2GB and sd1s1e of 1GB. In the process of finding out the > device name of the tape drive I did a "tar cvf rsd0 /tmp". The amount of > data I have written over the raw disk is about 20K. This disk has /usr. > I need to retrieve /usr, mainly my mails in /usr/home. How should I go > about it? > > I retrieved sd1s1e, i.e. /var and got the /var/mail. > > I cannot mount or fsck this device since it complains, improper > superblock. I have another machine with similar partitioning, would that > help? > > Also how can I make an exact image of the ruined disk on another one of > the same hardware configuration? > > -- > --Gopu (gopu@global.com) >
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