From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 29 09:45:29 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 89BF016A4CF for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:45:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from paf.se (argv.paf.se [195.66.31.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1B1943D5C for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:45:28 +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 1846941; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 11:45:27 +0200 Message-ID: <415A8436.2090205@yuebing.net> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 11:45:26 +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> <415A6B0F.5000908@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 09:45:29 -0000 Does : UFS2+S N in "freebsd disklabel editor" mean that no newfs will be created i.e that only the disklabel will be written and the acyual filesystem be left alone? as opposed to UFS+S Y ? d-tail (I'm a bit worried :| ) Subhro wrote: > There is a key for toggling new filesystem. Probably Y..... sorry > don't rember it. > > Regards > S. > > > On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:58:07 +0200, didi wrote: > >>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" >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> > > >