accidental fdisk -BI

[Henrik W Lund]

Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:
> [Henrik W Lund, 2004-10-17]
> 
>> What this means is that any other slices you had on the disk will be gone. I
>> don't know what disk layout you had, but something tells me that you may have
>> erased /usr, /var and /tmp (if you used the default fdisk layout when
>> installing FreeBSD, that is). I'm no expert, but I think this _can_ lead to
>> complications.
> 
> 
> Note that BIOS partitions are not the same as BSD partitions. The former 
> is known as slices in BSD. fdisk -BI /dev/da0 will initialize the disk for 
> one *slice* covering the whole disk. BSD partitions inside this slice will 
> not be afflicted, so /usr, /var and /tmp are probably still intact as 
> well :)
> 
> If there were other slices on the disk (bios partitions) the original 
> partition table may be recovered using sysutils/gpart.
> 
> 
> Svein Halvor

Thanks for that clarification! Note to self:

slices = BIOS partitions
partitions = "BSD partitions" residing on slices

Let there be no doubt in my mind! :-D

-- 
Henrik W Lund