Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 21:22:07 +0300 From: "Andy V. Oleynik" <andyo@prime.net.ua> To: BluzMan <bluzman@oz.net> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Attemping to "unformat" UFS Partition Message-ID: <3756C7CE.AC600B28@prime.net.ua> References: <4.2.0.54.19990603202239.00a4a2e0@cypress.nw.verio.net>
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Did U write changes (newfs'ing) on the disks?
If U did - no way :(. At least try to mount their
slices.
BluzMan wrote:
> I recently started an FBSD installation in which a took a series of
> hot-pluggable SCSI drives (formatted using UFS) from one machine and moved
> them to another. My intention was to keep the file system intact on these
> relocated drives and simply mount them within the directory structure on
> the new machine. While running through the installation, I inadvertently
> told sysinstall that these drives were new file systems while in
> disklabel (too much coffee and not enough sleep during th install!). I am
> now at a point that while all the partitions located on these drives are
> still intact, the data has been erased.
>
> I am desperately trying to find a way to "unformat" these UFS partitions so
> as to recover the data that was on the drives prior to the install. Any
> thoughts, suggestions, etc on how I might be able to do this are very
> appreciated.
>
> Thx...
>
> Drew B.
>
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