On 2023-09-27, Isaac Meerleo <spritskills...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you all for your replies. I needed to step away from my > computer last night so I apologize for the terse email. > sd0 is my physical hard disk with full disk encryption. I wrote a 5gb > iso over the beginning of sd1c (my softraid volume). I rebooted. I > installed openbsd on a separate drive, booted it, mounted the > encrypted volume, and hopelessly ran scan_ffs. > > After reading Stuart's advice, I will attempt to reinstall the > disklabel from scratch. I installed 7.2 on my second disk; the version > I used to do the initial install. > When I initially set up my disk, I used the auto partition defaults > which left me with a 300gb /home directory. Later, I expanded the > /home partition across the rest of the disk. When I recreate the > disklabel, should I let it auto partition and then grow the file > system like before? Or should I just set home to fill the rest of the > disk?
Set it to fill the rest of the disk - don't run growfs on it again. I would be wanting to mount filesystems read-only and try to copy data off to another disk, then reinstall on the disk with damaged disklabel and copy back, rather than relying on the existing filesystems long-term.
