Problem after upgrade, please help

[scuba at centroin.com.br]

Hi Chuck,

On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Chuck Swiger wrote:

|On Jun 15, 2007, at 8:54 AM, scuba at centroin.com.br wrote:
|> 	I did an upgrade via Boot CD, from FBSD 5.4 to 6.1 that finished
|> without errors. But after the reboot, I discovered that the disk partition
|> has gone.
|> 	The original disk had two partitions, one DOS (20GB) and the other FBSD
|> (60 GB), selectable via FBSD boot manager.
|> 	Since I don't have a backup of the original disk labels, how can I
|> recover my partitions?
|
|You can try to use the fdisk program via the sysinstall program from your boot
|CD (ie Configure->Fdisk) and recreate your partitions, assuming you can
|remember or get lucky recreating the exact parameters.  There's also:

	I don't think I have that lock. :-)

|/usr/ports/sysutils/testdisk

	I'll try testdisk, thank you.

- Marcelo Souza

|Tool to check and undelete partition
|Works with the following partitions:
|- FAT12 FAT16 FAT32
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|- Linux SWAP (version 1 and 2)
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|- BeFS (BeOS)
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|
|TestDisk is under GNU Public License.
|You can compile it under Dos with DJGPP or under Linux or BSD with gcc.
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|
|- Florent Thoumie
|flz at xbsd.org
|
|-- 
|-Chuck


- Marcelo