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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Recovering del'd partitions Date: 6 Jul 1995 23:34:56 +0100 Organization: None Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3thoeg$knt@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> References: <DAz05A.2Kr@emi.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Chris May (cmay@athens.emi.net) wrote: : Hi, I recently took over for a disgruntled employee who deleted : the partitions on some drives on a crucial machine. Can anyone : suggest a utility which might be able to rebuild the partion tables? : I've used MicroHouse's Drivepro before to rebuild fat tables, but : I need one for drives which were formatted for FreeBSD. : Any help would be greatly appreciated. This was recently discussed: You need to find out the SuperBlock magic number of your file systems, and search the raw disk for this number. When you find it on a cylinder boundry, you've probably got a partition. From this, you can re-fdisk the disk. It's a pain, but it's also doable. Just remember, until you're certain you've got things right, ALWAYS mount -r the file systems. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....