Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 17:18:29 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: Kal Torak <kaltorak@quake.com.au>, FreeBSD-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Oh no... Message-ID: <15014.49605.434564.15058@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20010307212411.A63107@student.uu.se> References: <3AA5EAE0.C9CEF366@quake.com.au> <20010307212411.A63107@student.uu.se>
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Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> types: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 07:01:36PM +1100, Kal Torak wrote: > > Hiyas... > > > > I kinda did a fdisk -BI on my main HDD by accident... It killed > > all my partitions... I tried to get them back with sysinstall and > > the live file system, but I cant mount them and stuff... > > > > Is there some way I can get my data back? I dont care so much about > > the file systems.. But there are some files I would *LOVE* to get > > back... > > > > Any pointers would be great... > > *IF* you know exactly how large your partitions were and where they started > and ended then a bit of work with fdisk/disklabel can restore them. > You just create new entries with the same info on the disk as you had before. This is why you should print a copy of the fdisk and disklabel for the relevant disks, and save them with your backups. At one point, there was a handbook entry discussing this, but I couldn't find it last time I looked. I've had BIOSes overwrite my disklabel on DD disks. Having the information printed and ready saved my ass. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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