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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:16808 comp.os.386bsd.misc:5518 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!caen!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gatech!udel!news.mathworks.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!server.cs.vt.edu!not-for-mail From: chrisye@csgrad.cs.vt.edu (Chengyin Chris Ye) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Installation of a DOS application OVERWRITES the FreeBSD partition!! Date: 26 Feb 1995 15:55:51 -0500 Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3iqpsn$v5m@csgrad.cs.vt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: csgrad.cs.vt.edu I hate the #@!$ thing happens to me. In my 486DX2-66, I partitioned 1 Gig disk into two parts. The first 250M is Dos partition, and the rest is FreeBSD. Today, when I was installing a Window software, I didn't pay too much attention about how much disk space left in the Dos partition, and the software package saw there are lots disk space "free". So it happily exceed the dos partition limit and overwrite part of FreeBSD partition. The Dos/Win application took 253M in total, so it overwrites 3M disk space at the beginning of FreeBSD partition. Is there any way, I can get part of FreeBSD file system back without restart from scratch? Or at least temporary back, so I can save some files into floppy disks? Any idea is welcome. For future note: how to prevent this kind of things happen again? Thanks lot -chris chrisye@csgrad.cs.vt.edu