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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
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