Josef Karthauser <j...@pavilion.net> writes:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 06:23:24PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > Josef Karthauser <j...@pavilion.net> writes:
> > > Ahha - of course.  Ok, let me re-phrase the question then.  By looking
> > > at the contents of the superblocks on a UFS file system it's possible to
> > > reconstruct a disklabel for a slice.
> > Well, it's possible to reconstruct the label information for *that
> > particular UFS file system*, since if you know the location of the
> > superblock (or one of its backup copies), you can determine the offset
> > and size of the FS. It won't tell you anything about *other*
> > partitions though.
> That's ok, because each slice has its _own_ label.  If the bios partition
> table loses it's mind that's a little more work :).

You're confusing partitions and slices.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no


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