label editing

[Erik Udo]

I'm so ashamd for sending the answer right after the question:
So i found T(Toggle Newfs) option in sysinstall's label editor,
and made that one partition i had in it. Then the label editor
used fsck_ffs to recover it. I JUST LOVE FREEBSD!!
Just when i thought all my data was lost!
Well, atleast someone having the same problem might find my
posts..




Erik Udo wrote:

> So i got my partition back, and succesfully mounted it. All
> the old data was there. Now i just need my old slice on that
> partition back.
>
> Here's what happend in chronological order of what i did:
> - I boot 4.4 installdisk to fix mbr
> - I set ad0s1 as bootable, and write changes
> - Then i boot to HD installation of FreeBSD 5.3RC1
> - And then i notice, my 150GB partition is gone, it's now
> 100GB 4.2BSD and 50GB unused
> - I delete 100GB partition, and merge 100GB and 50GB into
> one partition, and save changes.
> -I run gpart and scan_ffs unsuccesfully
> -Then i figured i can mount /dev/ad0s3, and that i didn't need labels.
> -And now i'm messing with disklabel -e to recover my old partition.
>
> Now remember i only did one slice on that partition some
> time ago using sysinstall. It was ad0s3d.
>
> Here's what bsdlabel -e /dev/ad0s3 gives me:
>
> # /dev/ad0s3:
> 8 partitions:
> #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
>  a: 398297072       16    unused        0     0
>  c: 335389005        0    unused        0     0         # "raw" part, 
> don't edit
>
> Then i try to save it, with no modifications, i get:
>
> /tmp/EdDk.tiDLEmTpvt: 5 lines, 223 characters.
> partition a: partition extends past end of unit
> re-edit the label? [y]:
>
>
> So i'm asking for correct changes i could try to recover my
> lost slice.
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