Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 11:57:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hard drive failure Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904231156290.29524-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904221515270.4590-100000@foobar.hyperhost.net>
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On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Patrick Seal wrote: > Everything was gone Includinng fdisk info and diskinfo stuff. One > interesting tidbit though: > > The data for partition 1 is: > sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) > start 63, size 16514001 (8063 Meg), flag 80 (active) > beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; > end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 15 > Before I refdisk'd the drive the : > sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) > start 63, size 16514001 (8063 Meg), flag 80 (active) > beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; > end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 15 And this was on slice 4? FreeBSD's fdisk will create a fictitious slice table if it doesn't exist with the FreeBSD `slice' on slice 4. It will print an error at the same time though. > > stuff was under partition 4 (probably a bit different though). Maybe > that's why I was having all the trouble. Somehow all the drive info had > shifted or was corrupt or something. > > > I guess that the only left to do is to just guess the sizes of /usr and > /var and swap. Any other thoughts? Have fun. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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