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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 11:57:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net>
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Subject: Re: Hard drive failure
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On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Patrick Seal wrote:

> Everything was gone Includinng fdisk info and diskinfo stuff.  One
> interesting tidbit though:
> 
> The data for partition 1 is:
> sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
>     start 63, size 16514001 (8063 Meg), flag 80 (active)
>         beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1;
>         end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 15

> Before I refdisk'd the drive the :
> sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
>     start 63, size 16514001 (8063 Meg), flag 80 (active)
>         beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1;
>         end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 15

And this was on slice 4?  FreeBSD's fdisk will create a fictitious slice
table if it doesn't exist with the FreeBSD `slice' on slice 4.  It will
print an error at the same time though.



> 
> stuff was under partition 4 (probably a bit different though).  Maybe
> that's why I was having all the trouble. Somehow all the drive info had
> shifted or was corrupt or something.
> 
> 
> I guess that the only left to do is to just guess the sizes of /usr and
> /var and swap.  Any other thoughts?

Have fun.

Doug White                               
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