fdisk partition / disklabel recovery (help!)

[Naram Qashat]

You've also got the choice of using the program testdisk in
sysutils/testdisk to try to fix your problem.  It helped me when I
accidently hosed the MBR and partition table on one of my drives.

Naram Qashat

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Anderson" <anderson at centtech.com>
To: <freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 01:33 PM
Subject: fdisk partition / disklabel recovery (help!)


> >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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> Eric Anderson    anderson at centtech.com    Centaur Technology
> You have my continuous partial attention
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