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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: j@uriah.heep.sax.de, kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de
Subject: Re: advice needed to recover a FS/disk
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>> How do I get to the begin of the FS once knowing the
>> offset of the disklabel resp. the partition offsets?

>0000200  57 45 56 82 04 00 00 00   73 74 33 36 35 35 6e 00   WEV.....st36=
>55n.
>         ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^                                         ^^^^

>The marked bytes are the ``disk magic''.  So it seems that it's 512
>bytes behind the start of the disk/slice.

That's the label magic.  ffs's start at offset one bootstrap reservation
size (8K) in their partition.

Bruce