From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 26 13:23:43 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id NAA05262 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 26 Feb 1995 13:23:43 -0800 Received: from csgrad.cs.vt.edu (csgrad.cs.vt.edu [128.173.41.41]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA05256 for ; Sun, 26 Feb 1995 13:23:37 -0800 From: chrisye@csgrad.cs.vt.edu Received: from localhost by csgrad.cs.vt.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Sep94-1023AM) id AA00440; Sun, 26 Feb 1995 16:22:53 -0500 Message-Id: <9502262122.AA00440@csgrad.cs.vt.edu> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Installation of a DOS application OVERWRITES the FreeBSD partition! Date: Sun, 26 Feb 95 16:22:53 -0500 X-Mts: smtp Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, everyone: I have a big problem here. In my 486DX2-66, I partitioned 1 Gig disk into two parts. The first 250M is Dos partition, and the rest is FreeBSD. Today, when I was installing a Window software, I didn't pay too much attention about how much disk space left in the Dos partition, and the software package saw there are lots disk space "free". So it happily exceed the dos partition limit and overwrite part of FreeBSD partition. The Dos/Win application took 253M in total, so it overwrites 3M disk space at the beginning of FreeBSD partition. Is there any way, I can get part of FreeBSD file system back without starting from scratch? Or at least temporary back, so I can save some files into floppy disks? For future note: how to prevent this kind of things happen again? Any advise is welcome! Thanks lot -chris (chrisye@csgrad.cs.vt.edu)