Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 13:41:49 +0100 From: Oscar-Ivan Lepe-Aldama <oscar.lepe@acm.org> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Disklabel lost and found thanks to OpenBSD Message-ID: <3C7F770D.64CF2752@acm.org> References: <3BD488B9.2A8E57C9@acm.org>
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Here, I want to document how I manage to rescue the disk label of the FreeBSD partition of my computer's disk. After "Googling" the list, it seams that no one has previously reported a succesful disk label recovery history. And I beleive it would be usefull. Hope it is. Some time ago I managed to corrupt the disk label of the FreeBSD partition of my computer's disk while updating Windows, which at that time resided on a contiguos partition. I didn't have backups of the disk label so I was in trouble. I received some help from David K. (thanks David) but unfortunately I couldn't take advantage of this help to rescue the disk label. Then, I found on the net that OpenBSD includes as standard equipment a /sbin/scan_ffs command. So, I bought a new disk, installed it on my computer and installed OpenBSD 3.0 onto it. After learning the OpenBSD way of managing disks (which is notably different from the FreeBSD way) I manage to use scan_ffs for recovering the lost disk label. Thanks to the OpenBSD people. Oscar, To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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