On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 12:35:17PM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> > Ok.  I had a 20gig hd, and had a 1.5g partition at the end, [...tale
> > of woe...]
> 
> > Is there any hope of me ever seeing my beloved data again *sob*?
> 
> Hope, yes.  If a backup superblock for the new fs landed on top of
> something, that thing will have been overwritten; everything else
> should be intact.
> 
> First, re-newfs the partition with a smaller size, so's to avoid
> overwriting that 1.5G of data while you work.
> 
> Finding your data may be a bit more interesting.
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2002/05/23/0017.html is the
> archive copy of a message of mine from four days ago in which I
> included a program to look for superblocks.  In your case it will be a
> bit more interesting because you'll have superblocks from both
> partitions there; you may want to hack on the program to test the
> superblock to see if the filesystem size is (say) under 2G, or some
> such, to filter out the ones you care about.

Or look at the 'last mounted' string.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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