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Date:      Thu, 25 Jul 2002 17:55:24 -0700
From:      paul beard <paulbeard@mac.com>
To:        Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: restoring disklabel from an active disk?
Message-ID:  <3D409DFC.7000500@mac.com>
References:  <200207252335.g6PNZJi16204@clunix.cl.msu.edu>

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Jerry McAllister wrote:
> But, try looking at the disk with fdisk with no extra flags - just
> the main disk name like da0 without slice info.
>   like 'fdisk da0'
> and it will print out what it thinks the slices are.
> FreeBSD slices will have a sysid of 165.
> How it starts and ends will depend a little on the disk itself
> unless it is a SCSI disk (then you are lucky).

It sees the whole disk (partition 1) as a freebsd slice (ID=165).

So redoing that would be where to start: find out where my old 
slice 2 needs to start, in other words, then let disklabel operate 
on that.

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