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Date:      Sun, 09 Jul 2000 11:09:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Shawn Ramsey <shawn@megadeth.org>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: fdisk
Message-ID:  <200007091809.LAA75833@john.baldwin.cx>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.0.20000707143739.02155eb8@mail.cpl.net>

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On 07-Jul-00 Shawn Ramsey wrote:
> I just fdisked a FreeBSD partition in DOS fdisk. I havent done anything 
> else since. Is there a snowballs chance in hell that Norton (or something 
> else) can recover this?

depends on what you did.  If you haven't formatted the disk, you just need
to change the partition's FS type to '165' decimal, or 'a5' hex.  That's
also assuming you didn't change the size of the partition.

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