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

[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 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 process of cleaning up.
>>>
>>>Thanks for all the help.
>>
>>	Too late but you might want to have a look at sysutils/testdisk.
> 
> 
> hmmm ... are you sure that it not only displays the 
> filling of mounted filesystems ?
> 
>>From the ports description it looks to me:
> 	"`disktool' is a good sysadmin tool for monitoring 
> 	diskfull situations to avoid datafile corruption."

	That is sysutils/disktool, not sysutils/testdisk :-)

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Florent Thoumie
FreeBSD Committer
flz at FreeBSD.org