fdisk partition / disklabel recovery (help!)
Eric Anderson
anderson at centtech.com
Tue Jun 13 17:33:19 UTC 2006
>From the subject, you probably already know my dilemma. After booting a
linux livecd (I'll refrain from naming the distro), my laptop no longer
has any partitions. Now, the drive was not newfs'ed with any other OS, so
I believe only the boot loader and partitioning are messed up. I see an
ffsrecov tool, that could probably help me, but I want to make sure I
don't make any bad decisions here.
So, my partitioning was something like:
ad0
ad0s1 DOS
ad0s2 ??
ad0s3 ??
ad0s4 Linux root / swap
FreeBSD was on either ad0s2 or ad0s3, I can't recall which, but I believe
it was ad0s3. I had 3 partitions (/, /alt, /home) and a swap.
I'm running the ffsrecov tool now, but it appears to be very slow chugging
through the disk.
Is there any additional ways I can find the partitioning scheme, or find
the bsdlabel's on the disk? Does anyone know of a command line (dd+some
tools/perl/etc) way to find the bsdlabels?
Once the bsdlabels are found, then what?
Also - if I rewrite the bsdlabel exactly as it was before, I should be in
business, correct?
I'm in a very bad spot without this machine (happened at a particularly
in-opportune time also, of course), so I'd appreciate any help anyone
could provide.
Thanks in advance!
Eric
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