From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 22 19:09:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA08198 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 19:09:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from chmls06.mediaone.net (chmls06.mediaone.net [24.128.1.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA08190 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 19:09:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from housley@frenchknot.ne.mediaone.net) Received: from frenchknot.ne.mediaone.net (frenchknot.ne.mediaone.net [24.128.74.10]) by chmls06.mediaone.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA12271 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 22:08:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frenchknot.ne.mediaone.net (housley@cat.frenchknot.ne.mediaone.net [192.168.69.48]) by frenchknot.ne.mediaone.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA20478 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 22:08:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from housley@frenchknot.ne.mediaone.net) Message-ID: <362FE51F.20E83194@frenchknot.ne.mediaone.net> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 22:08:31 -0400 From: "James E. Housley" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Help. I unlabeled my disk..... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Can someone please help by pointing my in the right direction to help myself. I deleted the disklabel on my drive. I was able to add the root partition back in. I have written down the sizes I thought the drives were in Meg. I can't get the starting point of the user partition right. Is it possible to do a read of the disk in the range I believe it starts on looking for the SuperBlock? I really would like to the some of the data back I lost. The funny thing is I lost it getting ready to backup up the data. I know mount checks and see that there is not a valid super-block. How does it do it? Can I exploit it to search for the super block? All help will be greatly appreciated. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message