Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 14:26:19 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: dgilbert@dclg.ca Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Filesystem marker. Message-ID: <20040114.142619.35090817.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <16389.25821.502399.872877@canoe.dclg.ca> References: <16389.25821.502399.872877@canoe.dclg.ca>
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David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> writes:
: Is there a set of bytes at some offset in a block that is common to
: any instance of a BSD ufs filesystem? I ask because recently my home
: machine erased it's fdisk block _and_ the bsdlabel with it. It
: certainly didn't have time to erase the whole disk, but I'm having
: trouble guessing where the partitions are.
You can look for the UFS magic number.
Warner
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