GEOM_BDE: where is my partition?

Felipe Neuwald felipe at neuwald.biz
Wed Aug 2 13:23:54 UTC 2006


Hi Iulian,

ok, I'll try gpart here and tell you about the results.

Thank you,

Felipe Neuwald.

Iulian M escreveu:
> On Tuesday 01 August 2006 17:57, Stefan Bethke wrote:
>   
>> Maybe you got lucky, and only the first sector of the disk got lost
>> in that crash. If you know how you had partitioned that disk
>> *exactly*, or you have another disk of the same size that is
>> partitioned *exactly* the same, you might try to re-create the slices
>> usign fdisk, or copying over the first sector with dd.  Otherwise,
>> you need to restore from backup.
>>     
>
> Not sure if it will help you, but there is a tool called gpart 
> (sysutils/gpart) in the ports witch tries to recover your slices/partitions 
> information so you can recreate them.
>
>   



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