On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 06:46:51PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Josef Karthauser <j...@pavilion.net> writes: > > On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 06:23:24PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > Josef Karthauser <j...@pavilion.net> writes: > > > > Ahha - of course. Ok, let me re-phrase the question then. By looking > > > > at the contents of the superblocks on a UFS file system it's possible to > > > > reconstruct a disklabel for a slice. > > > Well, it's possible to reconstruct the label information for *that > > > particular UFS file system*, since if you know the location of the > > > superblock (or one of its backup copies), you can determine the offset > > > and size of the FS. It won't tell you anything about *other* > > > partitions though. > > That's ok, because each slice has its _own_ label. If the bios partition > > table loses it's mind that's a little more work :). > > You're confusing partitions and slices.
I don't think so - PC's have a partition table. Us FreeBSDers call these partitions 'slices', and subdivide these into FreeBSD partitions. Each slice (pc partition) has a disklabel which denotes where the FreeBSD partitions live on the slice. I see what you were saying now above now. I agree that the superblock for a UFS file system won't tell anything about other UFS partitions, but a block by block search of the whole slice will identify potential superblocks that will. 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
