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Date:      Thu, 11 Jan 1996 23:04:43 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        j@uriah.heep.sax.de, kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: advice needed to recover a FS/disk
Message-ID:  <199601111204.XAA10518@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>> How do I get to the begin of the FS once knowing the
>> offset of the disklabel resp. the partition offsets?

>0000200  57 45 56 82 04 00 00 00   73 74 33 36 35 35 6e 00   WEV.....st36=
>55n.
>         ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^                                         ^^^^

>The marked bytes are the ``disk magic''.  So it seems that it's 512
>bytes behind the start of the disk/slice.

That's the label magic.  ffs's start at offset one bootstrap reservation
size (8K) in their partition.

Bruce



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