From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 8 10:55:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [194.242.128.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4604150DA; Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:55:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@florence.pavilion.net) Received: (from joe@localhost) by florence.pavilion.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id SAA01243; Sun, 8 Aug 1999 18:51:12 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from joe) Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 18:51:12 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: hackers@freebsd.org, fs@freebsd.org Subject: Disk label recovery - request for suggestions. Message-ID: <19990808185112.A99557@pavilion.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, 24 The Old Steine, Brighton, BN1 1EL, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A few weeks ago I had a problem with a missing partition table and disklabel. Niall Smart forwarded me a small C program for scanning a drive for superblocks and rewriting a disklabel table. I'd like to do some work on integrating this into FreeBSD because it seems too useful to leave out. At the very least it could be a stand along tool that works on UFS slices, that'd be easy. What I'm wondering though is whether it should be an extension to the disklabel program. If so, what extra work is required to make it work with non UFS file systems - is 'disklabel' used on non UFS fs's? Joe -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: How many times have you booted today? Technical Manager Viagra for your server (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@uk.freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message