Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 20:35:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> To: Siegbert Baude <siegbert.baude@gmx.de> Cc: FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: Re: mount_msdos woes [JOY] Message-ID: <20020807203037.L33423-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> In-Reply-To: <3D511BE3.3030206@gmx.de>
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On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Siegbert Baude wrote: > Hi Peter, > PL> Yeah, I suppose that's a valid point; Floppies barely hold any (backuppable) data besides. But had I saved `fdisk > /floppy/fdisk.out` to a floppy I might have been able to safely (hmmmm) re-partition a blasted HD with a krunked MBR and partition table. ;-) A couple bytes = peace of mind! > As I just recovered a friend's disk with corrupted partition table last > weekend (he found a bug in Norton ghost the hard way ;-) ) I can say > that ports/sysutils/gpart is an extremely helpful tool. It searches the > whole disk for possible partitions and did a great job: it really found > all of them. After recreating the appropriate entries in the partition > tables including the extended ones, everything was back. Got me a fine > dinner. :-) Ciao Siegbert Yeah, after the bootable floppies from PartitionMagic failed me, I've lamentably been dragging on for a solution and/or workaround. :-( I'm going to try this ports/sysutils/gpart tool -- I suppose I have no other recourse -- by getting it onto a fixit floppy or... can one boot up to the kern.flp and mfsroot.flp floppies then replace the latter with another floppy to mount that would be ufs-formatted and contain the gpart binary? That might cause a problem. Do you recommend I colocate the victim HDD in with the one I am using now, and run gpart on it from the currently booted HDD? I think I ought to be patient and not jump right in (but I'm very excited). (:-) If gpart fixes my woes, I'll donate $5 to $10 to your favorite charity in your name (or something like www.bsdforums.org - no joke) Hugzamillion, -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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