On 2/6/07, Petr Janda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is there a program out there that can restore a disklabel by guessing
the offset/size of each partition?
Petr
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-userlevel/2005/07/29/.html
Pretty much exactly what you ask for. Don't see why it shouldn't work
On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:21:02 +1100
Petr Janda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Im trying to edit a disklabel of an old DF instalation, but I get an error:
>
> disklabel: Will not overwrite old bootblocks w/ label, install new boot
> blocks first!
>
> How do I install new boot blocks?
>
> Petr
Is
:Is there a program out there that can restore a disklabel by guessing
:the offset/size of each partition?
:
:Petr
I'm not sure, but it ought to be fairly easy to write one to search
for the UFS superblock magic number.
-Matt
Petr Janda wrote:
Is there a program out there that can restore a disklabel by guessing
the offset/size of each partition?
Petr
you might want to take a look at openbsd's scan_ffs(8)
Yeah, i found that program yesterday. and it found all my long gone
partitions which i kept around. Any chance this extremely useful program
gets imported into contrib? I'd be great to have it around all the time.
Petr
On 2/7/07, Petr Janda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yeah, i found that program yesterday. and it found all my long gone
partitions which i kept around. Any chance this extremely useful program
gets imported into contrib? I'd be great to have it around all the time.
The one I suggested 16 hours ear
Ive followed that and done
boot0cfg -B ad1s1 and even boot0cfg -B ad1
but i still get:
disklabel: Warning, old bootblocks detected, install new bootblocks &
reinstall the disklabel
when i do disklabel /dev/ad1s1
but I dont get the error when I do disklabel /dev/ad1
disklabel should definat
Petr Janda wrote:
> disklabel: Warning, old bootblocks detected, install new bootblocks &
> reinstall the disklabel
>
> when i do disklabel /dev/ad1s1
Does 'disklabel -r' change anything?
walt wrote:
Petr Janda wrote:
disklabel: Warning, old bootblocks detected, install new bootblocks &
reinstall the disklabel
when i do disklabel /dev/ad1s1
Does 'disklabel -r' change anything?
No, still same.
Petr
