Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 19:12:51 +0200 From: Henrik W Lund <henrik.w.lund@broadpark.no> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: accidental fdisk -BI Message-ID: <4172A813.4080007@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <20041017172502.P872@maren.thelosingend.net> References: <417183FE.1000102@atopia.net> <41724FE4.20506@broadpark.no> <20041017172502.P872@maren.thelosingend.net>
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Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: > [Henrik W Lund, 2004-10-17] > >> What this means is that any other slices you had on the disk will be gone. I >> don't know what disk layout you had, but something tells me that you may have >> erased /usr, /var and /tmp (if you used the default fdisk layout when >> installing FreeBSD, that is). I'm no expert, but I think this _can_ lead to >> complications. > > > Note that BIOS partitions are not the same as BSD partitions. The former > is known as slices in BSD. fdisk -BI /dev/da0 will initialize the disk for > one *slice* covering the whole disk. BSD partitions inside this slice will > not be afflicted, so /usr, /var and /tmp are probably still intact as > well :) > > If there were other slices on the disk (bios partitions) the original > partition table may be recovered using sysutils/gpart. > > > Svein Halvor Thanks for that clarification! Note to self: slices = BIOS partitions partitions = "BSD partitions" residing on slices Let there be no doubt in my mind! :-D -- Henrik W Lund
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