On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 13:55 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello folks. > > i am using slackware linux(2.6.14 with reiser4 patch) on x86_64 and was > trying to install free_bsd on a separate partition. > well, during that instalation , accedentualy i have pressed a wrong key , so > my partition table is owerriten by something else , but i realized this > streight away and stopped the instalation process .
I once did this by running fsck.reiser4 on the whole disk, instead of on the first partition. luckily, I wrote down what was in /proc/partitions, and reconstructed the partition table with help from hexedit to check the exact alignment of the partitions. As for the first partition on the disk, I had let fsck.reiser4 run to completion, fixing thousands of errors, with the various rebuild options turned on. Obviously this had caused a lot of damage to the file system, with it being off-set from the beginning of the disk. Amazingly re-running fsck.reiser4 on the actual partition seemed to do the trick, leaving only a few libraries corrupt. Quick tip: I found that about 0x11044 bytes in from the beginning of a Reiser4 partition, you find the string "ReIsEr40FoRmAt". I am sure other file systems have similar magic strings which can be searched for using hexedit, enabling the partition table to be fixed. -- Craig Shelley EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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