From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 29 07:58:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49B9616A4CE for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 07:58:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from paf.se (argv.paf.se [195.66.31.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C3C543D3F for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 07:58:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from didi@yuebing.net) Received: from [213.88.236.3] (account didi@yuebing.net HELO yuebing.net) by paf.se (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2b1) with ESMTP id 1846709; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:58:08 +0200 Message-ID: <415A6B0F.5000908@yuebing.net> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:58:07 +0200 From: didi User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040429) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Subhro References: <415A56F2.3060300@yuebing.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: corrupt disklabel, how to restore? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 07:58:10 -0000 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 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 >>_______________________________________________ >>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > > > >