I somehow wiped out my disklabel and while I am backing up my home
directory in the event I need to start from scratch, I would like
know if I can somehow extract a valid disklabel from a running
system and re-apply it?
If you can get disklabel to print out the incore version of the
yup, I got the part about the incore label but too late: I wish
there was some way to refresh it. It is active as far as df -k
or the mechanism in the kernel that tracks filesystems knows.
Hmmm. I just thought of something. You say the disklabel starts
at 0. Do you mean the offset?
I seem not to have that anymore: the disklabel that I get back
starts at 0. I seem to have trashed that as well while I was
thrashing around with this. grumble
Oh Oh, Sounds suspiciosly like it be gone then. Well, this is
your opportunity to be creative...
jerry
I take the
Assuming I work out the partition sizes with the output of df -k,
is there a way to determine the starting point for the slice that
contains all my BSD partitions?
As long as I don't reboot, things seem to be hunky-dory, but
that's not the most practical way to continue.
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Paul Beard / 8040
