Hi,
I'm having a problem with my old FreeBSD partition. I had the harddrive in
a
working system that i changed the motherboard in. It was unstable at first,
causing the system to lock up a couple times. I finally got the problems
worked out and installed 5.1 on a new drive. It is up and running now, but I
have problems when trying to access the old drive. The first thing I noticed
is that devfs wasn't creating /dev/ad2s1*. When I ran disklabel, it gave me
the following output:
# /dev/ad2s1:
8 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
a: 524288 63 4.2BSD 2048 16384 32776
b: 2055104 524351 swap
c: 35648172 63 unused 0 0 # "raw" part,
don't
edit
d: 524288 2579455 4.2BSD 2048 16384 32776
e: 524288 3103743 4.2BSD 2048 16384 32776
f: 32020204 3628031 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28512
partition c: partition extends past end of unit
disklabel: partition c doesn't start at 0!
disklabel: An incorrect partition c may cause problems for standard system
utilities
partition f: partition extends past end of unit
Now wishing I had saved the information from when it was working, I tried
fdisk to see what it would say:
(jacobian|~)# fdisk /dev/ad2
******* Working on device /dev/ad2 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=348861 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=348861 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 14 (0x0e),(Primary 'big' DOS (>= 32MB, LBA))
start 63, size 35648172 (17406 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63
The data for partition 2 is:
sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 35648235, size 315998550 (154296 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 1023/ head 0/ sector 1;
end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>
Partition 1 is DOS? Could that have gotten changed? Could that be preventing
me from seeing the rest of ad2s1? When I try to mount ad2s1, i get the
'a'
partition. I really really need what is on the 'f' partition.. Is there
any
way I can get that information back?
Thanks in advance,
Matt