On Fri, 01 May 2009 21:55:59 -0400, Daniel Ouellet wrote: >Hi, > >Now sure if anyone could give me a hint or pointer, but I very much >would appreciated ANY help if there is actually something possible to do. > >My Son did a mistake on his laptop tonight in trying to upgrade his >OpenBSD partition to 4.5 and he is pretty devastated at the outcome. > >He put the CD 4.5 in his laptop and booted from it. Then started the >install but at the question "do you want to use all the disk space for >OpenBSD" he did answer Yes. Right after that even he realize it was >wrong and didn't proceed to anything else, just did CTL-C and stop there. > >However looking back on his drive in shell mode with disklabel, of fdisk >to look only, looks like there is only one partition now. > >As for fdisk, it show 0, 1, 2, 3 with the #3 as OpenBSD for the full drive. > >What he had there before as a boot loader was "refit" that allow him to >select either OpenBSD or MAC. > >He is pretty devastated and I am in unfamiliar territory here and before >we do anything I try to research things, but I sure do not want to do >anything that could destroy any data on the drive. > >For what I could see, the data should still be there, or I hope it is >anyway, but the partition table may be is gone. > >I don't really know if there is a way, but ANY help would be extremely >welcome right about now! > >I am trying to find a way to help, or plan a possible recovery, but I >must admit that I am in green territory here. Sure not a MAC user and I >do not know what the possibility are here. 8>< snip------------
I don't know anything about a McDisk but I do know a few bits of forensics so here are some ideas. 1> Whatever you do DO NOT try to boot on it (or power-up the box it is in) again. 2> Somehow get yourself a dd'ed image of the drive onto reliable storage. 2a>Maybe do the dd to smaller chunks that will fit on DVDs: Record the skip value for each. 3> Load another identical (or larger) drive from the dd image or chunks. At this point you can try whatever McExperts or McOBSD gurus suggest and you still will not have lost anything (more). There are some tools that will find stuff. scan_ffs comes to mind. Good luck and be patient and thorough. Rod/ --- *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT CC me. I <am> subscribed to the list. Mail to the sender address that does not originate at the list server is tarpitted. The reply-to: address is provided for those who feel compelled to reply off list. Thankyou. Rod/ /earth: write failed, file system is full cp: /earth/creatures: No space left on device
