Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 12:52:45 +0100 (CET) From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: imp@village.org Cc: dillon@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall label.c Message-ID: <200201071152.g07BqlZ03308@Magelan.Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20020107.011750.21514069.imp@village.org>
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On 7 Jan, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <200201070751.g077pOs51981@freefall.freebsd.org> > Matt Dillon <dillon@FreeBSD.org> writes: > : Add 'R'ecover option that deletes a partition and attempts > : to recover its space into the previous partition. Revert 'D'elete > : to not attempt to recover any space. > > I had hoped when I read the first part of this that the 'R' command > would recover a corrupted disk lable from magic numbers at the start > of partitions... :-) http://www.leidinger.net/FreeBSD/ffsrescue.tar.gz (~3k) at least helps a little bit if you need to recreate a disk label. It only does read only operations, so you can test it on any disk (with ffs partitions) without fear. Bye, Alexander. -- It is easier to fix Unix than to live with NT. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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