Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:44:36 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@FreeBSD.org> To: Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: need hints to recover lost FreeBSD partition entries in MBR ... Message-ID: <20050912164436.GA98313@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> In-Reply-To: <1126513851.1894.20.camel@cream.xbsd.org> References: <20050911103410.GA9536@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> <4324426E.4010503@osoft.us> <20050911182450.GA992@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> <1126513851.1894.20.camel@cream.xbsd.org>
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On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:30:51AM +0200, Florent Thoumie wrote: > Le Dimanche 11 septembre 2005 à 20:24 +0200, Andreas Klemm a écrit : > > fdisk -u did the trick to interactively edit the partition table. > > > > Confusing was then, that the previous FreeBSD partitions > > /dev/ad4s3d and /dev/ad4s4d were not present anymore. > > > > I had to use /dev/ad4s3c and /dev/ad4s4. > > > > But now I luckily was able to mount my old filesystems. > > > > Am now in the process of cleaning up. > > > > Thanks for all the help. > > Too late but you might want to have a look at sysutils/testdisk. hmmm ... are you sure that it not only displays the filling of mounted filesystems ? >From the ports description it looks to me: "`disktool' is a good sysadmin tool for monitoring diskfull situations to avoid datafile corruption." My situation was way different, since I lost my partition table in MBR and was not able to mount anything since I needed to reconstructure the partitiontable using fdisk 1st. Andreas /// -- Andreas Klemm - Powered by FreeBSD 5.4 Need a magic printfilter today ? -> http://www.apsfilter.org/
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