From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 23 23:54:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA20152 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 23 Apr 1997 23:54:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.36.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA20146 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 1997 23:54:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bragg by adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (5.65/AndrewR-930902) id AA12869; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 16:24:22 +0930 From: Kristian Kennaway Received: by bragg; (5.65/1.1.8.2/05Aug95-0227PM) id AA01273; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 16:24:21 +0930 Message-Id: <9704240654.AA01273@bragg> Subject: Re: Corrupted disk slice To: scott@statsci.com Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 16:24:21 +0930 (CST) Cc: kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Scott Blachowicz" at Apr 23, 97 04:04:27 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > The data for partition 3 is: > > > > That's wd1s4...an unused slice. > > Do the sizes of those partitions (1000 + 1000 + 444 = 2444MB) add up to your > whole disk? Ack..if you include the 55MB swap space, yes. My DOS extended partition should only be 500MB..it was 1000, but I resized it. My guess is something has restored my old DOS partition tables to what they were and overwritten the old partition I had on wd1s4. Okay, I'll have to redo the changes then. Thankyou all for you help :-) Kris