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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: HELP: disklabel'd the wrong disk
Date: 13 Jun 1995 12:53:22 +0200
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Coranth Gryphon <gryphon@msgi.com> wrote:
>Hi. Is there any way to recover a disklabel if you overwrote
>it by mistake? Here's what happened.

Unless you've got an excellent idea of your disk partitioning: no.  It
saved my disk once to have the sheet of paper lying around with the
megabyte figures i've entered in sysinstall... running sysinstall
again did (of course) repartition it exactly the same way.  But that's
certainly a very minor chance.
-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)