From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 4 0:51: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from volodya.prime.net.ua (volodya.prime.net.ua [195.64.229.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE35B15A98 for ; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 00:50:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andyo@prime.net.ua) Received: from prime.net.ua (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by volodya.prime.net.ua (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA00359; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 21:22:07 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from andyo@prime.net.ua) Message-ID: <3756C7CE.AC600B28@prime.net.ua> Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 21:22:07 +0300 From: "Andy V. Oleynik" Organization: M-Info X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-BETA i386) X-Accept-Language: ru, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: BluzMan Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Attemping to "unformat" UFS Partition References: <4.2.0.54.19990603202239.00a4a2e0@cypress.nw.verio.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Did U write changes (newfs'ing) on the disks? If U did - no way :(. At least try to mount their slices. BluzMan wrote: > 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 -- WBW Andy V. Oleynik (When U work in virtual office U have good chance to obtain virtual money ö%-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message