SUMMAY: Disklabel screwed: Help needed

From: Xihong Yang <yang_at_nevis1.nevis.columbia.edu>
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 10:41:14 -0400

Thanks to:
        R. Morison <russel_at_huey.met.fsu.edu>
        Paul Henderson <henderson_at_unx.dec.com>
        "Dr. Tom Blinn, 603-884-0646" <tpb_at_doctor.zk3.dec.com>
        alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com

Soution:
        # disklabel -r rz3 > /tmp/rz3label
        # disklabel -z rz3
        # disklabel -R -r -t advfs rz3 /tmp/rz3label rz29b

The original message:

> Greeting!
>
> I just made a mistake which screwed up the disklabel. The disk has
> two AdfFS partitions: one for root, one for usr. It also has two
> swap patitions and one UFS partitions. I want to use disklabel command
> to restore the disklabel but I do not know how to do it for AdvFS.
> Please help me!
>
> The following is the disk partition table before screwed up:
>
> a: 262144 0 ADVfs
> b: 393216 262144 swap
> e: 2072240 5898240 swap
> f: 409600 7970480 4.2BSD
> g: 5242880 655360 ADVfs
>
> -- Xihong
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>

-- Xihong
       + Nevis Lab, Columbia University
    _ O _ Tel:(914)591-2840 (office) __o
   ( `-|-' ) (212)749-8849 (home) /\
    \_+|+_/ Email: yang_at_nevis1.columbia.edu /)
     ----- WWW: http://nevis1.columbia.edu/~yang
Received on Thu Oct 08 1998 - 14:44:03 NZDT

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