From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 11 23:49:46 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id XAA24907 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 Sep 1995 23:49:46 -0700 Received: from gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA24901 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 1995 23:49:43 -0700 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA07544 for freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com; Tue, 12 Sep 1995 08:06:37 +0200 Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 08:06:37 +0200 From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" Message-Id: <199509120606.IAA07544@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> To: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: recovering a FS Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk During the process of upgrading a 1.1.5.1 machine to 2.1.0-950726-SNAP I inadvertently overwrote the partition of a 1GB SCSI disk wich was containing all my saved mail messages and such. "It's like you have broken with the past" at the moment :-). I managed to reestablish the partitioning scheme by running a 1.1.5.1 install disk set partially on it. Now the only problem is that all disklabel data I can find doesn't seem to be the right one. Is there a way (with a program or whatever tool) to reestablish or recover a disklabel from a given disk? Presently the only chance to find certain things is to grep through the raw device :-( --Chris Christoph P. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de