In article <20061023201529.GB16473@run.galis.org>,
George Georgalis <george@galis.org> wrote:
>On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 06:11:06PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>>In article <20061023143323.GA19828@run.galis.org>,
>>George Georgalis <george@galis.org> wrote:
>>>On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 08:57:18PM -0400, George Georgalis wrote:
>>>>While I was unloading a disk with errors, I noticed the partition
>>>>table was odd, I tried to fix it and now, basically the situation
>>>>can be reduced to the c and d partitions have been deleted.
>>>
>>>BTW - I DID get all the needed data off the drive before I started
>>>mucking with the partition table and this is the output of fdisk
>>>and disklabel
>>>
>>> $ fdisk wd1 
>>>fdisk: DIOCGDEFLABEL: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>>>fdisk: DIOCGDINFO: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>>> $ disklabel wd1                                                        
>>>
>>>disklabel: Invalid signature in mbr record 0
>>>disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>>>
>>>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?
>>
>>what does ls -l /dev/rwd1* say?
>
> $ ls -l /dev/rwd1* 
>-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel        267324504 Oct 21 18:31 /dev/rwd1

I think you should remove that :-)

christos