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Date:      Wed, 8 Sep 1999 19:34:00 +0100
From:      Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>
To:        David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Superblock.
Message-ID:  <19990908193400.C58237@florence.pavilion.net>
In-Reply-To: <14294.41194.422190.809990@trooper.velocet.ca>
References:  <14294.41194.422190.809990@trooper.velocet.ca>

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On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 01:46:18PM -0400, David Gilbert wrote:
> So... I lost my partition table.  I'm willing to spend a little time
> on this.  Is there a byte sequence that I might recognise in a
> superblock or at the start of a partition?  I know this isn't an easy
> task, but man 5 fs leads me to believe that I might find:
> 
>      #define FS_MAGIC        0x011954   /* the fast filesystem magic number */
>      #define FS_OKAY         0x7c269d38 /* superblock checksum */
> 
> ... but I don't see those bytes.  Any hints?
> 
> I'm willing to post a description of a solution for the FAQ if I can
> find the filesystems.
> 
> Dave.

Search the hackers mailing list for a mail from me, which contains a
C program to do the work for you.

Joe
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