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. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype USER, n.: The word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot." -- Dave Barry, "Claw Your Way to the Top" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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