Guess what... I've got a disk where the partition table and the disklabel has mysteriously disappeared! Oops.
I've reconstructed the partition table, and now need to partition the disklabel. If I mount /dev/wd2s1c I get the root (/) partition back, although the size is obviously bogus in the disklabel; now I'd like to search for the other partitions. /etc/disktab tells me which partitions there used to be, but I don't know where they start, or how large they are. I'm guessing that it should be a fairly simple process of scanning the disk for superblocks and from them I should be able to determine the start of each partition and the sizes from there. Can anyone fill me in on what to look for superblock wise please? I've spent a few hours reading the fsck docs and scanning through the header files and source code, but haven't found the answer yet. The data on the disk isn't crucial, I can rebuild the system if necessary, but it seems that maybe I can spend less time writing a recovery tool than it would take to start from scratch. Thanks in advance, Joe -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: How many times have you booted today? Technical Manager Viagra for your server (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [...@pavilion.net, j...@uk.freebsd.org, j...@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
