On Saturday 23 October 2004 03:14 am, you wrote: > Anish Mistry wrote: > >On Friday 22 October 2004 02:55 pm, Erik Udo wrote: > >>My boot loader wansn't working properly and i didn't find my 5.2.1 > >>install cd, so i grabbed 4.4(or is that 4.6) install cd, and chose fdisk, > >>marked the freebsd partition bootable(S), and wrote changes. > > > >You should be able to use gpart on a bootable cd (Freesbie or knoppix) to > >recover the partition table. > > I had gpart running all night, it didn't find my slices. > > I made my partition exactly the way it was, and mounted /dev/ad0s3, > it worked! i got my data back. But the slice was missing. > So do you have any idea how to recover a lost slice? > I tried scan_ffs but it gave me input/output error :( > Scan_ffs seemed to work fine first, and i was thinking about sending big > thanks to > the one who wrote that, but no... Well scan_ffs would have been my suggestion. When I used it last to recover a completely hosed FreeBSD partition table it worked like a dream. Just want to check your terminology since scan_ffs only recovers FreeBSD partition info: DISK SLICE1 (FreeBSD) Partition a Partition b etc... SLICE2 (Windows) NTFS SLICE3 (Linux) ext3 SLICE4 So are you saying scan_ffs can't rebuild your FreeBSD partitions or that gpart wasn't able to recover a slice? -- Anish Mistry
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