From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 3 20:43: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from baobob.nwnet.net (baobob.nwnet.net [198.104.255.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 410EE14EB3 for ; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 20:43:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bluzman@oz.net) Received: from cypress.nwnet.net by baobob.nwnet.net via smtpd (for hub.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.18]) with SMTP; 4 Jun 1999 03:43:05 UT Received: from capone ([192.80.13.206]) by cypress.nwnet.net (970819888) with ESMTP id UAA14389 for ; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 20:43:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <4.2.0.54.19990603202239.00a4a2e0@cypress.nw.verio.net> X-Sender: bluzman@mail.oz.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.54 (Beta) Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 20:39:53 -0700 To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: BluzMan Subject: Attemping to "unformat" UFS Partition Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I recently started an FBSD installation in which a took a series of hot-pluggable SCSI drives (formatted using UFS) from one machine and moved them to another. My intention was to keep the file system intact on these relocated drives and simply mount them within the directory structure on the new machine. While running through the installation, I inadvertently told sysinstall that these drives were new file systems while in disklabel (too much coffee and not enough sleep during th install!). I am now at a point that while all the partitions located on these drives are still intact, the data has been erased. I am desperately trying to find a way to "unformat" these UFS partitions so as to recover the data that was on the drives prior to the install. Any thoughts, suggestions, etc on how I might be able to do this are very appreciated. Thx... Drew B. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message