corrupt disklabel, how to restore?

[didi]

Ok, thanks I managed to rescue my disk from /usr/sbin/sysinstall
Freebsd Disklabel Editor in combination with fdisk.

It automatically fsck'd my filesystem in write of disklabel...

Thanks :)

-d


Subhro wrote:
> 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:
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>>>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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