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Date:      Sun, 23 May 1999 01:45:18 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Craig A. Struble" <cstruble@vt.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Need help recovering from major mistake
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.4.02.9905230127520.12492-100000@csgrad.cs.vt.edu>

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Hi, I just made a major mistake with my FreeBSD drive that I hope I can
recover from. Not thinking too far ahead, I tried to install OS-BS on a
dangerously dedicated FreeBSD drive. This had the unfortunate side effect
of wiping out both the boot code and disklabel from the drive. I'd like to
restore them, but I don't have a printout of what the disklabel used to
be. Therein lies the challenge.

Using my FreeBSD CD-ROMs, I've been able to go into fixit mode and mount
the root filesystem of the drive, but I'm not sure where to go from there.
How can I figure out what my old disklabel was? Is there some way I can
search the raw disk for the locations of the file systems?

Any help will be GREATLY appreciated. Please email me directly with your
responses as I'm not subscribed to the FreeBSD mailing lists.

	See ya later,
		Craig
--
Craig Struble (cstruble@vt.edu)   Ph.D. Candidate, Virginia Tech 
http://www.acm.vt.edu/~cstruble/  cstruble@vt.edu



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