Subject: Re: hosed partition table
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Geert Hendrickx <ghen@NetBSD.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 10/23/2006 16:42:49
On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 10:33:24AM -0400, George Georgalis wrote:
> I'm pretty sure this has nothing to do with the disk errors that started
> this journey.  The system happens to be 3.1_RC2, but if needed, I could
> change this box easily enough.  What other commands are available to
> doctor the disk?

Try to find your /var partition with scan_ffs(8) or scan_lfs(8) (new in
NetBSD 3.1).  When you've got that, you can recover your fdisk table and
disklabel(s) from /var/backup/work/.

	Geert