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Date:      Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:58:07 +0200
From:      didi <didi@yuebing.net>
To:        Subhro <subhro.kar@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: corrupt disklabel, how to restore?
Message-ID:  <415A6B0F.5000908@yuebing.net>
In-Reply-To: <b2807d0404092900467c5c9d20@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <415A56F2.3060300@yuebing.net> <b2807d0404092900467c5c9d20@mail.gmail.com>

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It's partitioned and mounted from sysinstall in 5.2.1

And the machine rins 5.2.1 again :(

So, I guess I could:

use fdisk and/or disklabel from within sysinstall again. But how do I 
prevent sysinstall from making 'newfs' ?

Thanks & Regards D-tail


Subhro wrote:
> If you have partitioned your disk as UFS2, then there is no way in
> which you can access them running 4.10.
> 
> Regards
> S,
> 
> 
> On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 08:32:18 +0200, didi <didi@yuebing.net> wrote:
> 
>>I did what you shouldn't do. I have two disks one 80gb and one 100gb
>>I was not happy with FreeBSD 5.2.1 so I downgraded to 4.10.
>>Problem is the disklabel on my second drive somehow got corrupt, on this
>>drive i backed up all home/* folders etc and so on, but now I can't get
>>to my backup.
>>I really need a way to restore the disklabel.
>>
>>I have tried scan_ffs with no result is there any other way,
>>
>>The disk was mounted as ad1s1d one large slice.
>>
>>Any information could be usefull
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