How to recover data? - Formatted, Fdisk'd, and disklabeled ad1, now ad0 with FreeBSD is messed up

[Ruben Bloemgarten]

That is the slice you made. This is fine. No p about the bios thing. Good
luck with the rest of your FBSD trial and tribulations.

Ruben 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Kane [mailto:mark at mkproductions.org] 
Sent: August 08, 2005 5:29 PM
To: ruben at bloemgarten.demon.nl
Subject: Re: How to recover data? - Formatted, Fdisk'd, and disklabeled ad1,
now ad0 with FreeBSD is messed up

Ruben Bloemgarten wrote:
> Best guess is that your booting from ad1 not ad0, check your bios.

Unbelievable. I guess when I used the PowerMax utility or something, the 
boot order got switched around. I haven't been in the BIOS since the 
machine's initial setup. Very sorry I wasted everyone's time with such a 
silly thing!

Just to make sure though that I'm on the right track and that was it, 
this is what df -h looks like now:

Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a    248M     58M    170M    25%    /
devfs          1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev
/dev/ad0s1e    248M     22K    228M     0%    /tmp
/dev/ad0s1f    145G    128G    6.1G    95%    /usr
/dev/ad0s1d    248M     26M    202M    11%    /var
/dev/ad1s1d     55G    4.0K     51G     0%    /60GB

For that, I mounted /dev/ad1s1d like you said before. Basically my 
question is if it should be on "d" like that, since the handbook says:

"Partition d used to have a special meaning associated with it, although 
that is now gone. To this day, some tools may operate oddly if told to 
work on partition d, so sysinstall will not normally create partition d."

It also says:

"sysinstall's Label editor favors the e partition for non-root, non-swap 
partitions. Within the Label editor, create a single file system by 
typing C."

I created this though sysinstall, and the only ad1 things showing in 
/dev are:

ad1s1
ad1s1c
ad1s1d

I apologize if this is getting off topic, but I just want to be certain 
I have everything in order to proceed.

Thanks again!

-Mark


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