corrupt disklabel, how to restore?

[didi]

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,
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> On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 08:32:18 +0200, didi <didi at yuebing.net> wrote:
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>>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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