Hello, I was trying to install FreeBSD 5.2 in the slice ad0s3 but accidentally I wiped two partitions of my 4.9 system which were in the ad0s2 slice :(
ad0s1 -> Linux boot ad0s2 -> FreeBSD 4.9 (deleted partitions) ad0s3 -> FreeBSD 5.2 ad0s4 -> Extended partition they were the root and var partitions (usr and home were in different disks). strings /dev/ad2s2c | grep "/dev/ad0s2.*ufs" /dev/ad0s2e /var ufs rw,noatime,nosuid 0 1 /dev/ad0s2a / ufs rw 1 1 As the disk hasn't been reformatted or written over all the data is still here. I haven't got luck googling, so I would like to ask for advises. Perhaps searching some type of signature helps to find the deleted partitions. thanks you. # fdisk ad2 ******* Working on device /dev/ad2 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=8912 heads=15 sectors/track=63 (945 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=8912 heads=15 sectors/track=63 (945 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 131 (0x83),(Linux native) start 63, size 16002 (7 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 16/ head 14/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 16065, size 803250 (392 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 17/ head 0/ sector 1; end: cyl 866/ head 14/ sector 63 The data for partition 3 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 819315, size 2634660 (1286 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 867/ head 0/ sector 1; end: cyl 1023/ head 14/ sector 63 The data for partition 4 is: sysid 5 (0x05),(Extended DOS) start 3453975, size 4964085 (2423 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 1023/ head 14/ sector 63; end: cyl 1023/ head 14/ sector 63 # disklabel ad2s2 # /dev/ad2s2: 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] c: 803250 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS/IT d- s+:+() a- C+++ UBL+++$ P+ L+++ E--- W++ N+ o++ K- w--- O+ M+ V- PS+ PE+ Y++ PGP+>+++ t+ 5 X+$ R- tv-- b+++ DI D++>+++ G++ e- h+(++) !r !z ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"