Fortunately, the FreeBSD installer's disklabel program (the graphical
interactive one) was able to find the original partition information!
I assigned the mount points (I don't think that was necessary),
wrote ('W' from the screen) the label to disk again, it went thru
a series of fscks and all m
Hari Bhaskaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there way to backup the partition info somewhere? (may be a floppy?)
AFAIK, the partition info is entirely within the first sector of the
slice. The slice info is entirely within the first sector of the disk.
(There's other info in them too, so res
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hari Bhaskaran
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> Is there way to backup the partition info somewhere? (may be a floppy?)
> (At least for future installations?) I run vinum (mirrored across
> two disks) on other machines (which I installed recently), but this
> machine was instal
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 06:41:48PM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
> located. (Eg, "dd if=/dev/hd0 of=/somedir/bigfile skip=_somenum_ \
> count=_someothernum_") Again, it's not much good for anything but
> copying back and trying again, but you might be able to find some
> ASCII text of importanc
Hari Bhaskaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there any chance? I only need a couple of files recovered.
Saving copies of the boot records and disklabels ain't a bad idea and
not hard to do. Just something more to do...
Anyway. Sounds like your MBR's partition table got messed up. If
you w
Hi,
I seem to have lost the partition info of one of the harddisks.
Is there a backup copy of partition information stored
elsewhere in the disk?
The long story: -
Due to some hardware problem, one of the HDs stopped working.
(doesn't spin at all) After trying it on couple of machines,
I did mana
