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Date:      Tue, 12 Jan 1999 10:38:16 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Finding a lost FS
Message-ID:  <19990112103816.G8886@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990110181118.F25747@bitbox.follo.net>; from Eivind Eklund on Sun, Jan 10, 1999 at 06:11:18PM %2B0100
References:  <19990110181118.F25747@bitbox.follo.net>

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On Sunday, 10 January 1999 at 18:11:18 +0100, Eivind Eklund wrote:
> An error during some build experiments made disklabel run against the
> wrong disk, overwriting just the label before quitting.  Have anybody
> got any good starters for how to recover the information on where the
> FS on that disk is located?

In the days where I did this for a living, we wrote a number of
programs to scan disks for likely-looking magic numbers.  I'd expect
that would work here as well.  Go through at 4kB offsets and look for
superblocks.  It'll take an hour or two to write the program, but
people will be grateful forever.

Greg
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