Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 14:43:55 -0800 (PST) From: Ovanes Manucharyan <ovanes_m@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Hard disk partition problem Message-ID: <20020309224355.4058.qmail@web14504.mail.yahoo.com>
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I have a major hard disk problem.
I let MaxBlast software install its partition
manager on my Freebsd drive. I recognized my
folly, however, too late. I un-installed
MaxBlast. My disk wasn't bootable afterwards.
before I used to have
ad0s1b <swap>
ad0s1a /
ad0s1e /tmp
ad0s1f /usr
ad0s1g /var
I know I had another partition, perhaps ad0s0 or ad0s2 that
had about 8 gigs which I mounted as /usr/local
When I boot into the install CD & ran the "live filesystem",
this is what the fdisk program (part of /stand/sysinstall)
showed me:
Offset Size End Name Ptype Desc Subtype F
0 63 62 - 6 unused 0
63 10244407 10149469 ad0s1 1 ext2fs 131
10249470 10450560 26700029 ad0s2 2 extended 5 > 26700030 11970 26711999 - 6
unused 0 > When I went into the slice editor (of /stand/sysinstall),
I did not see any slices.
here's what the disk looks like on linux with fdisk
# start end size fstype
a 1 26 25 4.2BSD
b 26 58 31 swap
c 1 1662 1661 unused
e 58 121 63 4.2BSD
f 121 376 254 4.2BSD
g 376 440 63 4.2BSD
SO first, I'm trying to figure out the linux command
to mount my freebsd partitions.
More importantly, is there anything I can do to
turn my disk back into what it was before.
I've installed FreeBSD on another disk and
i'm thinking of doing this:
dd if=/dev/new_disk of=/dev/dead_disk bs=512 count=63
Will this work? If not, what will?
How can I make my new FreeBSD system see the disks
as slices instead of 2 non-related partitions?
63 10244407 10149469 ad0s1 1 ext2fs 131
10249470 10450560 26700029 ad0s2 2 extended 5
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