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From: chrisye@csgrad.cs.vt.edu (Chengyin Chris Ye)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Installation of a DOS application OVERWRITES the FreeBSD partition!!
Date: 26 Feb 1995 15:55:51 -0500
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
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Message-ID: <3iqpsn$v5m@csgrad.cs.vt.edu>
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	I hate the #@!$ thing happens to me. 

 	In my 486DX2-66, I partitioned 1 Gig disk into two parts. The first 
250M is Dos partition, and the rest is FreeBSD.
	Today, when I was installing a Window software, I didn't pay too
much attention about how much disk space left in the Dos partition, and
the software package saw there are lots disk space "free". So it happily 
exceed the dos partition limit and overwrite part of FreeBSD partition.  
	The Dos/Win application took 253M in total, so it overwrites
3M disk space at the beginning of FreeBSD partition. 


	Is there any way, I can get part of FreeBSD file system back without
restart from scratch? Or at least temporary back, so I can save some files
into floppy disks? Any idea is welcome.

	For future note: how to prevent this kind of things happen again?


Thanks lot

-chris
 chrisye@csgrad.cs.vt.edu