Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 13:13:28 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, j@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: imb@scgt.oz.au Subject: Re: Clobbered partititon table .. :-( Message-ID: <199603120213.NAA22765@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
>> How does one recover from the clobbered partition table that no longer >> exists after you try to install another drive with the 2.1 install disk ? >By writing down the figures before clobbering it. >Or by remembring about the exact file system assignments that have >been used by the time of installation. This once helped me to recover >from a clobbered BSD disklabel. Or by restoring from an up to date backup: $root dd if=/dev/rsd0 of=/var/backups/mbr.rsd0 count=1 # save $root cp /var/backups/mbr.rsd0 /dev/rsd0 # restore Or by remembering some values from an out of date backup: $root fdisk /var/backups/mbr.rsd0 fdisk: Can't get file status of /dev/r/var/ Cannot open disk /dev/r/var/ (No such file or directory) $root mail -s "someone broke device independence of fdisk" \ j@uriah.heep.sax.de # :-) and remembering other values in another way. Bruce
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199603120213.NAA22765>