Re: need hints to recover lost FreeBSD partition entries in MBR ...

2005-09-12 Thread Florent Thoumie
Le Dimanche 11 septembre 2005 à 20:24 +0200, Andreas Klemm a écrit : fdisk -u did the trick to interactively edit the partition table. Confusing was then, that the previous FreeBSD partitions /dev/ad4s3d and /dev/ad4s4d were not present anymore. I had to use /dev/ad4s3c and /dev/ad4s4.

Re: need hints to recover lost FreeBSD partition entries in MBR ...

2005-09-12 Thread Andreas Klemm
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:30:51AM +0200, Florent Thoumie wrote: Le Dimanche 11 septembre 2005 à 20:24 +0200, Andreas Klemm a écrit : fdisk -u did the trick to interactively edit the partition table. Confusing was then, that the previous FreeBSD partitions /dev/ad4s3d and /dev/ad4s4d

Re: need hints to recover lost FreeBSD partition entries in MBR ...

2005-09-12 Thread Florent Thoumie
Andreas Klemm wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:30:51AM +0200, Florent Thoumie wrote: Le Dimanche 11 septembre 2005 à 20:24 +0200, Andreas Klemm a écrit : fdisk -u did the trick to interactively edit the partition table. Confusing was then, that the previous FreeBSD partitions /dev/ad4s3d

need hints to recover lost FreeBSD partition entries in MBR ...

2005-09-11 Thread Andreas Klemm
I unluckily lost the partition table of my 1st disc in a 2 disc system. Tip: avoid gag boot manager and don't do my mistakes ... Having a printout of the df command I was able to re-create all of my fat32 partitions on disc XP boot and 4x FAT32 in an extended part. Now I'm looking for

need hints to recover lost FreeBSD partition entries in MBR ...

2005-09-11 Thread Andreas Klemm
I unluckily lost the partition table of my 1st disc in a 2 disc system. Tip: avoid gag boot manager and don't do my mistakes ... Having a printout of the df command I was able to re-create all of my fat32 partitions on disc XP boot and 4x FAT32 in an extended part. Now I'm looking for

Re: need hints to recover lost FreeBSD partition entries in MBR ...

2005-09-11 Thread Joe Koberg
You might want /usr/ports/sysutils/scan_ffs from the package description: scan_ffs(8) recovers accidential lost or deleted disklabels. ... This little program will take a raw disk device (which you might have to create) that covers the whole disk, and finds all probable UFS/FFS parti-

Re: need hints to recover lost FreeBSD partition entries in MBR ...

2005-09-11 Thread Andreas Klemm
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 09:42:54AM -0500, Joe Koberg wrote: You might want /usr/ports/sysutils/scan_ffs from the package description: scan_ffs(8) recovers accidential lost or deleted disklabels. Thanks for the hint. It turns out for me that for some strange reason the FreeBSD Slice 4

Re: need hints to recover lost FreeBSD partition entries in MBR ...

2005-09-11 Thread Andreas Klemm
fdisk -u did the trick to interactively edit the partition table. Confusing was then, that the previous FreeBSD partitions /dev/ad4s3d and /dev/ad4s4d were not present anymore. I had to use /dev/ad4s3c and /dev/ad4s4. But now I luckily was able to mount my old filesystems. Am now in the

Re: need hints to recover lost FreeBSD partition entries in MBR ...

2005-09-11 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Andreas Klemm wrote this message on Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 11:39 +0200: I unluckily lost the partition table of my 1st disc in a 2 disc system. Tip: avoid gag boot manager and don't do my mistakes ... Having a printout of the df command I was able to re-create all of my fat32 partitions on