On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 09:32:44PM -0800, Robert Kennedy wrote:
> > I just have to say that I feel you all made it look all too disastrous,
> > when in the end the everything went like a Sunday picnic to the park
> > (without the ants).
> 
> Congratulations on your success. I would like to say that people's
> cautionary statements are not misplaced. Like you, I was successful
> the first few times I played with various disklabel tricks, and I got
> overconfident until one day when I tried something I figured would be
> innocuous, mistakenly applied the command to the wrong device, and
> discovered I had not made sufficient notes to recover the partition
> table for the drive I mistakenly labeled. Nor did I have a recent
> backup. It was most frustrating, so even though your recent experience
> went smoothly, please do use extra caution. There is not a lot of
> redundancy in the structures you are messing with.

did you look at /var/backups/disklabel.*, or have a recent enough
backup of that directory?