On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:57:13 +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote: >How big was the image you copied to the disk? -- that should tell >you how much of your drive is overwritten.
The image was about 4MB. >It is probable your disklabel has also disappeared, so you >probably need to reconstruct both the slice table in the MBR and >the disklabel in the first slice. With some vague recollections of >what you did originally to install FBSD it is possible that some >lucky guesses might work. How would I go about that? >If you can find the first sector of a slice carrying an installed file >system then this might hold a copy of the slice table allowing >reconstruction of the original MBR with some confidence. How? Other than not playing around with dd how can one safeguard from something like this in the future? Is there a way to backup the disklable and slice info? After all this is cleared I am also going to check what is the best way to keep a working copy of my entire system. On windows I have a program, driveimage, which I use to every night keep an image of the entire disk while the system is on. Has saved me many times.. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
