Well, I accidentally disklabeled it. I was playing with ccd recently and stupidly began ccd type recovery on a dump copy hard drive by entering disklabel and changing the unused wd2a partition into a 4.2BSD partition, offset of course by 63, writing to the disklabel and returning to the command prompt. I tried to set things right (by resetting the things back to the way it was). Anywho, is there any chance of recovering what is on this hard drive?
right now I see # disklabel -E wd2 .. blah blah blah ... 16 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] a: 39102147 0 unused 0 0 # Cyl 0 - 38791* c: 39102336 0 unused 0 0 # Cyl 0 - 38791 > # restore -rvs 1 -f /dev/rwd2a Verify tape and initialize maps restore: /dev/rwd2a: Device not configured # restore -rvs 1 -f /dev/rwd2c Verify tape and initialize maps Tape block size is 32 restore: Tape is not a dump tape It is, quite possible that it didn't work properly to begin with, as I did never check (my very bad). I was wondering if there was any way to recover what is on that drive, say with dd or something, or a way to rebuild the dump. To be complete, since I've already poured gasoline over myself and lit the BBQ-lighter and gave it a big hug, I suspect the answer is no (in which case to be burned to a crisp) or there is something else left to try. Thanks for the Info! Either way I still feel like I'm hosed. -- I know too much and yet do not practise what I know.
