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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!narcisa.sax.de!not-for-mail 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 Organization: Private U**x site, Dresden. Lines: 14 Message-ID: <3rjqn2$snh@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> References: <3rhntg$f6g@hydra.msgi.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.109.108.139 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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. ;-)