Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 07:12:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Daniel Flickinger <attila@hun.org> To: Patrick Hartling <patrick@137.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lost disklabel Message-ID: <20021120071230.cFqQ22596@hun.org> In-Reply-To: <3DD26D6F.4010202@137.org>
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been there! I only use dangerously dedicated disks, in pairs...
on the presumption stated that the disks are identical:
disklabel -r da0 >label.0
disklabel -W da1
disklabel -R -r da1 label.0
In extreme circumstances, I've done a few other things... but
try this one first; it's safe.
--
Sanity is the Playground for the Unimaginative
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 09:19:11AM -0600, Patrick Hartling wrote:
> I have a machine that is running -current from October 10, 2002. It had
> been running fine for about two weeks--up until I had to reboot it.
> When it came back up, one of my disks apparently lost its disklabel.
>
> Is there any way to recover a disklabel? If not, I'm willing to grovel
> the disk and try to reconstruct its disklabel (there is really only one
> partition on it that I need to get back, and its at the beginning of the
> disk), but disklabel(8) won't even let me try to make a new one. If I
> run 'disklabel -e da3s1', I get an error saying "ioctl DIOCGDINFO:
> Inappropriate ioctl for device". Running 'disklabel -r da3s1' gives a
> "bad magic pack number" error, which does not surprise me.
>
> This is a "dangerously dedicated" disk with a single BIOS partition
> containing four FreeBSD partitions. I have a second identical disk in
> the machine. fdisk(8) gives the same information for each, so I don't
> think the BIOS partition is messed up. Is there something obvious that
> I'm missing about how to fix this problem?
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