Look for ffsfind.c elsewhere on Internet. I used one when I incidentally relabeled a device from under a host on our SAN array. Had to modify it slightly to recognize superblocks UFS2 on FreeBSD side, but on a bright side, it worked pretty much unchanged on Solaris box.
Just in any case, I saved my copy at http://people.freebsd.org/~kan/ffsfind.c On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 10:48:45 -0500 David Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a set of bytes at some offset in a block that is common to > any instance of a BSD ufs filesystem? I ask because recently my home > machine erased it's fdisk block _and_ the bsdlabel with it. It > certainly didn't have time to erase the whole disk, but I'm having > trouble guessing where the partitions are. > > /usr/ports/sysutils/gpart will look for partitions on a disk ... but > it only knows to look for bsd disklabels ... not bsd filesystems. > Ideally, I'd like to make a bsd filesystem module for gpart with some > pointers from the group. > > Dave. > > -- > ===================================================================== > =======|David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can > only be ||Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | equal if > and only if they ||http://daveg.ca | > are precisely opposite. > |=========================================================GLO======== > ========_______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Alexander Kabaev _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
