Date: 10 Jan 2003 14:41:06 -0800 From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Hari Bhaskaran <subscr@spider.netmails.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recovering data from a faulty drive Message-ID: <dc7kdcfx19.kdc@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20030110203458.GA25253@poecilotheria.netmails.net> References: <20030110002127.GA19809@poecilotheria.netmails.net> <q9znq9g1zn.nq9@localhost.localdomain> <20030110203458.GA25253@poecilotheria.netmails.net>
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Hari Bhaskaran <subscr@spider.netmails.net> writes: > Is there way to backup the partition info somewhere? (may be a floppy?) AFAIK, the partition info is entirely within the first sector of the slice. The slice info is entirely within the first sector of the disk. (There's other info in them too, so restoring a sector might change more than partition info.) Having already given an example of "dd", I'll leave the way to back them up as an exercise for the reader. I thought I mentioned this, but the "disklabel" program can output partition info in ASCII format which you can backup and restore from too. A better method than "dd", for general purposes. And fdisk can give you slice info in ASCII for backup (but you'd have to restore by hand). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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