Subject: Re: Disklabel backups?
To: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/12/2000 14:35:41
Peter Seebach wrote:

> So, I know how to find superblock backups.
> 
> Do we keep disklabel backups?  If not, is there *ANY* way to recover the
> disk label from a disk which mysteriously lost it?

On recentish version of NetBSD there should be disklabel backups in
/var/backups if you can still get to /var.  When something similar
happened to me a year or two ago I wrote a small program to scan the
entire disk looking for the superblock magic number in each sector.
I'll see if I can find it if you want...

Simon.