corrupt disklabel, how to restore?

[Subhro]

Y means a new file system would be created

Regards
S.


On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 11:45:26 +0200, didi <didi at yuebing.net> wrote:
> 
> Does :
> 
> UFS2+S N
> 
> in "freebsd disklabel editor"
> 
> mean that no newfs will be created i.e that only the disklabel will be
> written and the acyual filesystem be left alone?
> 
> as opposed to
> 
> UFS+S Y
> 
> ?
> 
> d-tail
> 
> (I'm a bit worried :| )
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Subhro wrote:
> > There is a key for toggling new filesystem. Probably Y..... sorry
> > don't rember it.
> >
> > Regards
> > S.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:58:07 +0200, didi <didi at yuebing.net> wrote:
> >
> >>It's partitioned and mounted from sysinstall in 5.2.1
> >>
> >>And the machine rins 5.2.1 again :(
> >>
> >>So, I guess I could:
> >>
> >>use fdisk and/or disklabel from within sysinstall again. But how do I
> >>prevent sysinstall from making 'newfs' ?
> >>
> >>Thanks & Regards D-tail
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Subhro wrote:
> >>
> >>>If you have partitioned your disk as UFS2, then there is no way in
> >>>which you can access them running 4.10.
> >>>
> >>>Regards
> >>>S,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 08:32:18 +0200, didi <didi at yuebing.net> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>I did what you shouldn't do. I have two disks one 80gb and one 100gb
> >>>>I was not happy with FreeBSD 5.2.1 so I downgraded to 4.10.
> >>>>Problem is the disklabel on my second drive somehow got corrupt, on this
> >>>>drive i backed up all home/* folders etc and so on, but now I can't get
> >>>>to my backup.
> >>>>I really need a way to restore the disklabel.
> >>>>
> >>>>I have tried scan_ffs with no result is there any other way,
> >>>>
> >>>>The disk was mounted as ad1s1d one large slice.
> >>>>
> >>>>Any information could be usefull
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> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >
> >
> >
> 



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