Re: Problem after upgrade, please help

2007-06-15 Thread scuba
Hi Chuck,

On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Chuck Swiger wrote:

|On Jun 15, 2007, at 8:54 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|>  I did an upgrade via Boot CD, from FBSD 5.4 to 6.1 that finished
|> without errors. But after the reboot, I discovered that the disk partition
|> has gone.
|>  The original disk had two partitions, one DOS (20GB) and the other FBSD
|> (60 GB), selectable via FBSD boot manager.
|>  Since I don't have a backup of the original disk labels, how can I
|> recover my partitions?
|
|You can try to use the fdisk program via the sysinstall program from your boot
|CD (ie Configure->Fdisk) and recreate your partitions, assuming you can
|remember or get lucky recreating the exact parameters.  There's also:

I don't think I have that lock. :-)

|/usr/ports/sysutils/testdisk

I'll try testdisk, thank you.

- Marcelo Souza

|Tool to check and undelete partition
|Works with the following partitions:
|- FAT12 FAT16 FAT32
|- Linux EXT2/EXT3
|- Linux SWAP (version 1 and 2)
|- NTFS (Windows NT/W2K/XP)
|- BeFS (BeOS)
|- UFS (BSD)
|- Netware
|- ReiserFS
|
|TestDisk is under GNU Public License.
|You can compile it under Dos with DJGPP or under Linux or BSD with gcc.
|
|WWW: http://www.cgsecurity.org/
|
|- Florent Thoumie
|[EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
|-- 
|-Chuck


- Marcelo

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Re: Problem after upgrade, please help

2007-06-15 Thread Chuck Swiger

On Jun 15, 2007, at 8:54 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
	I did an upgrade via Boot CD, from FBSD 5.4 to 6.1 that finished  
without errors. But after the reboot, I discovered that the disk  
partition has gone.
	The original disk had two partitions, one DOS (20GB) and the other  
FBSD (60 GB), selectable via FBSD boot manager.
	Since I don't have a backup of the original disk labels, how can I  
recover my partitions?


You can try to use the fdisk program via the sysinstall program from  
your boot CD (ie Configure->Fdisk) and recreate your partitions,  
assuming you can remember or get lucky recreating the exact  
parameters.  There's also:


/usr/ports/sysutils/testdisk

Tool to check and undelete partition
Works with the following partitions:
- FAT12 FAT16 FAT32
- Linux EXT2/EXT3
- Linux SWAP (version 1 and 2)
- NTFS (Windows NT/W2K/XP)
- BeFS (BeOS)
- UFS (BSD)
- Netware
- ReiserFS

TestDisk is under GNU Public License.
You can compile it under Dos with DJGPP or under Linux or BSD with gcc.

WWW: http://www.cgsecurity.org/

- Florent Thoumie
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

--
-Chuck

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