A few weeks ago I had a problem with a missing partition table and
disklabel. Niall Smart forwarded me a small C program for scanning a
drive for superblocks and rewriting a disklabel table.
I'd like to do some work on integrating this into FreeBSD because it
seems too useful to leave out. At t
A few weeks ago I had a problem with a missing partition table and
disklabel. Niall Smart forwarded me a small C program for scanning a
drive for superblocks and rewriting a disklabel table.
I'd like to do some work on integrating this into FreeBSD because it
seems too useful to leave out. At th
Josef Karthauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If so, what extra work is required to make it work with non UFS file
> systems - is 'disklabel' used on non UFS fs's?
Disklabel doesn't work at the fs level, it works at the slice level -
dividing slices into partitions, in which you can create file
On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 03:38:05PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Josef Karthauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > If so, what extra work is required to make it work with non UFS file
> > systems - is 'disklabel' used on non UFS fs's?
>
> Disklabel doesn't work at the fs level, it works at t
Josef Karthauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ahha - of course. Ok, let me re-phrase the question then. By looking
> at the contents of the superblocks on a UFS file system it's possible to
> reconstruct a disklabel for a slice.
Well, it's possible to reconstruct the label information for *tha
On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 06:23:24PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Josef Karthauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Ahha - of course. Ok, let me re-phrase the question then. By looking
> > at the contents of the superblocks on a UFS file system it's possible to
> > reconstruct a disklabel fo
Josef Karthauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 06:23:24PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > Josef Karthauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Ahha - of course. Ok, let me re-phrase the question then. By looking
> > > at the contents of the superblocks on a UFS file s
On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 06:46:51PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Josef Karthauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 06:23:24PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > > Josef Karthauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > > Ahha - of course. Ok, let me re-phrase the questi
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes:
: superblock (or one of its backup copies), you can determine the offset
: and size of the FS. It won't tell you anything about *other*
: partitions though.
It will give a fairly strong hint, however. If you know what is taken
up by this
Josef Karthauser writes:
> If so, what extra work is required to make it work with non UFS file
> systems - is 'disklabel' used on non UFS fs's?
Disklabel doesn't work at the fs level, it works at the slice level -
dividing slices into partitions, in which you can create file systems.
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On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 03:38:05PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Josef Karthauser writes:
> > If so, what extra work is required to make it work with non UFS file
> > systems - is 'disklabel' used on non UFS fs's?
>
> Disklabel doesn't work at the fs level, it works at the slice level -
> d
Josef Karthauser writes:
> Ahha - of course. Ok, let me re-phrase the question then. By looking
> at the contents of the superblocks on a UFS file system it's possible to
> reconstruct a disklabel for a slice.
Well, it's possible to reconstruct the label information for *that
particular UFS fil
On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 06:23:24PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Josef Karthauser writes:
> > Ahha - of course. Ok, let me re-phrase the question then. By looking
> > at the contents of the superblocks on a UFS file system it's possible to
> > reconstruct a disklabel for a slice.
>
> Well
Josef Karthauser writes:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 06:23:24PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > Josef Karthauser writes:
> > > Ahha - of course. Ok, let me re-phrase the question then. By looking
> > > at the contents of the superblocks on a UFS file system it's possible to
> > > reconstruc
On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 06:46:51PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Josef Karthauser writes:
> > On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 06:23:24PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > > Josef Karthauser writes:
> > > > Ahha - of course. Ok, let me re-phrase the question then. By looking
> > > > at the con
In message Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes:
: superblock (or one of its backup copies), you can determine the offset
: and size of the FS. It won't tell you anything about *other*
: partitions though.
It will give a fairly strong hint, however. If you know what is taken
up by this partition, you can
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