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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!udel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news-e1a.megaweb.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.iii.net!iii1.iii.net!not-for-mail From: hdslip@iii1.iii.net (HD Associates) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Recovering del'd partitions Date: 9 Jul 1995 09:29:27 -0400 Organization: HD Associates, Inc. Lines: 14 Message-ID: <3tolka$f1o@iii1.iii.net> References: <DAz05A.2Kr@emi.net> <3thoeg$knt@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: iii1.iii.net In article <3thoeg$knt@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>, Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> wrote: >You need to find out the SuperBlock magic number >of your file systems, and search the raw disk for this number. When you >find it on a cylinder boundry, you've probably got a partition. Right, and looking for the first alternate super block at the right place will help also. -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267