Messed up my partition

[Anish Mistry]

On Saturday 23 October 2004 03:14 am, you wrote:
> Anish Mistry wrote:
> >On Friday 22 October 2004 02:55 pm, Erik Udo wrote:
> >>My boot loader wansn't working properly and i didn't find my 5.2.1
> >>install cd, so i grabbed 4.4(or is that 4.6) install cd, and chose fdisk,
> >>marked the freebsd partition bootable(S), and wrote changes.
> >
> >You should be able to use gpart on a bootable cd (Freesbie or knoppix) to
> >recover the partition table.
>
> I had gpart running all night, it didn't find my slices.
>
> I made my partition exactly the way it  was, and mounted /dev/ad0s3,
> it worked! i got my data back. But the slice was missing.
> So do you have any idea how to recover a lost slice?
> I tried scan_ffs but it gave me input/output error :(
> Scan_ffs seemed to work fine first, and i was thinking about sending big
> thanks to
> the one who wrote that, but no...
Well scan_ffs would have been my suggestion.  When I used it last to recover a 
completely hosed FreeBSD partition table it worked like a dream.  Just want 
to check your terminology since scan_ffs only recovers FreeBSD partition 
info:
DISK
 SLICE1 (FreeBSD)
  Partition a
  Partition b
  etc...
 SLICE2 (Windows)
  NTFS
 SLICE3 (Linux)
  ext3
 SLICE4
So are you saying scan_ffs can't rebuild your FreeBSD partitions or that gpart 
wasn't able to recover a slice?
-- 
Anish Mistry
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