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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 10:39:08 +0100
From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org
Subject: advice needed to recover a FS/disk
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During early 2.1 install tests my wd0 got wiped out
when I was trying to install on wd1.

I managed to write a little program to find a disklabel
(DISKMAGIC) on the disk and dump the label information.

What I want is to dd the relevant portion to another disk
and vnconfig this piece as a vn disk to recover important
information which still resides on the disk.

How do I get to the begin of the FS once knowing the
offset of the disklabel resp. the partition offsets?


--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de