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Subject: Re: Please help.  Can't see HD
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On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 04:06:27 +0200, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:

>On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 20:54:06 -0500
>"Francisco Reyes" <francisco@natserv.com> wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to recover the label info? I don't know if the HD
>> is dying or whether the filesystem/HD boot sector is messed up.
>
>newfs -N will *probably* give the alternate superblocks so that you
>could do a fsck_ufs -b.

Could you elaborate a little?
Looked at man page for newfs and it says it just gives info of
newfs without doing operation. How will that be used?

I am not familiar with the tools to manage disks. I usually have
used /stand/systinstall to prepare HDs and allocate mount
points.