From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 28 07:21:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA22545 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 07:21:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bright.fx.genx.net (bright.fx.genx.net [206.64.4.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA22529 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 07:21:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by bright.fx.genx.net (8.9.1/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA06308; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 10:21:17 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) X-Authentication-Warning: bright.fx.genx.net: bright owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 10:21:17 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: bright@bright.fx.genx.net To: Joakim Henriksson cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lost filesystems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG for future reference the best partition recovery tool i have found was the Minix partition editor, it's part of the minix install program. lets you twiddle partitions without in any way messing with the data in the rest of the disk. windows once ate all 4 partitions on a disk and i was able to recover them with it. you sorta need to know the exact sizes of the partitions though. Alfred Perlstein - Programmer, HotJobs Inc. - www.hotjobs.com -- There are operating systems, and then there's FreeBSD. -- http://www.freebsd.org/ 3.0-current On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Joakim Henriksson wrote: > Hi, i was wondering if there is any chance to regain a filesystem that was > lost due to windows slapping on a dos label on the disk. I have recreated > the bsd partitions on the disks but i cant find a superblock to resotre > the fs with, is there anything that can be done or is my best shot to > restore the (ancient) backup from april this year. I would rather not for > obvious reasons :/ > > regards/ Joakim > > P.S. > This means i have no convinient way to read the lists until i have sane > system, so any answer should be CC'ed to me at this address in some way. > D.S. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message