From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 29 13:33:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA16712 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 13:33:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from server.local.sunyit.edu (A-T34.rh.sunyit.edu [150.156.210.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA16690 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 13:33:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu) Received: from localhost (perlsta@localhost) by server.local.sunyit.edu (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA06629; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 17:37:50 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: server.local.sunyit.edu: perlsta owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 17:37:49 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: perlsta@server.local.sunyit.edu To: Gopakumar H Pillai cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help in data recovery In-Reply-To: <34578D90.F83245A7@global.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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) >