Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 09:19:11 -0600 From: Patrick Hartling <patrick@137.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Lost disklabel Message-ID: <3DD26D6F.4010202@137.org>
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I have a machine that is running -current from October 10, 2002. It had been running fine for about two weeks--up until I had to reboot it. When it came back up, one of my disks apparently lost its disklabel. Is there any way to recover a disklabel? If not, I'm willing to grovel the disk and try to reconstruct its disklabel (there is really only one partition on it that I need to get back, and its at the beginning of the disk), but disklabel(8) won't even let me try to make a new one. If I run 'disklabel -e da3s1', I get an error saying "ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Inappropriate ioctl for device". Running 'disklabel -r da3s1' gives a "bad magic pack number" error, which does not surprise me. This is a "dangerously dedicated" disk with a single BIOS partition containing four FreeBSD partitions. I have a second identical disk in the machine. fdisk(8) gives the same information for each, so I don't think the BIOS partition is messed up. Is there something obvious that I'm missing about how to fix this problem? -Patrick -- Patrick L. Hartling | Research Assistant, VRAC patrick@137.org | 2274 Howe Hall Room 2624 PGP: http://www.137.org/patrick/pgp.txt | T: +1.515.294.4916 http://www.137.org/patrick/ | http://www.vrac.iastate.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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