disklabel recovery

[Gal Ben-Haim]

i can see the data with 'cat /dev/ad2' but I can't do much with it.
fdisk shows the partition properly (1 partition of the entire disk).
I need to rebuild the disklabel from scratch somehow, it was only one
partition on one slice.
I have the old layout written..

On 10/29/05, Arne Wörner <arne_woerner at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- Gal Ben-Haim <gbenhaim at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Im running FreeBSD 5.4
> > I accedently enabled swap on /dev/ad2s1c (raw label), this
> > destroyed my disklabel,
> >
> Hmm... Maybe it overwrote some other areas, too?
>
> > When I try to mount the filesystem I get: the mount is
> > successful,
> >
> So "mount" thinks, that the filesystem is clean...
> Can you copy the whole disc to another disc?
> Maybe you should do a fsck on that file system (WARNING: THIS
> COULD CAUSE MORE DAMAGE TO THE FILESYSTEM!!!)?
>
> > I tried to create a new label with 'sysinstall', but the label
> > which is created seems to be with invalid values.
> >
> Hmm... Do you remember the old layout (roughly)?
>
> -Arne
>
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Gal Ben-Haim, gbenhaim at gmail.com