Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:
[Henrik W Lund, 2004-10-17]
What this means is that any other slices you had on the disk will be gone. I
don't know what disk layout you had, but something tells me that you may have
erased /usr, /var and /tmp (if you used the default fdisk layout when
installing FreeBSD, that is). I'm no expert, but I think this _can_ lead to
complications.
Note that BIOS partitions are not the same as BSD partitions. The former
is known as slices in BSD. fdisk -BI /dev/da0 will initialize the disk for
one *slice* covering the whole disk. BSD partitions inside this slice will
not be afflicted, so /usr, /var and /tmp are probably still intact as
well :)
If there were other slices on the disk (bios partitions) the original
partition table may be recovered using sysutils/gpart.
Svein Halvor
Thanks for that clarification! Note to self:
slices = BIOS partitions
partitions = "BSD partitions" residing on slices
Let there be no doubt in my mind! :-D
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Henrik W Lund
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