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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:16864 comp.os.386bsd.misc:5540 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!qns1.qns.com!news.sprintlink.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!pipex!uknet!festival!edcogsci!richard From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: Installation of a DOS application OVERWRITES the FreeBSD partition!! Message-ID: <D4rMnJ.28H@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh References: <3iqpsn$v5m@csgrad.cs.vt.edu> Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 14:23:43 GMT Lines: 20 In article <3iqpsn$v5m@csgrad.cs.vt.edu> chrisye@csgrad.cs.vt.edu (Chengyin Chris Ye) writes: > 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? You probably can't recover the 'a' partition, but the rest is probably intact. If you boot from a floppy, and relabel the disk *exactly* as it was before, you should be able to mount the other partitions. > For future note: how to prevent this kind of things happen again? Most likely you had a 1Gb DOS filesystem, and used BSD fdisk to reduce the DOS slice to 250Mb. This leaves the DOS filesystem appearing (to DOS) to be 1Gb. You need to re-format the DOS partition (from DOS), or instead of using fdisk use one of the DOS programs that reduces the size of an existing partition while preserving its contents. -- Richard