This is embarrassing. I have a second disk in my laptop which I
use for storing large things (500G disk). A few weeks ago I was
dealing with a bunch of USB disks, and I guess I managed to
blitz sd1 (500G disk) in the process.
It used to be one 'a' partition of the entire disk. When I looked
just a moment ago (see data below) I have a very small part
of the disk carved up for OpenBSD and no partitions. Somehow
during my diskfest I worked on the wrong disk.
It's not the end of the world if I don't get it back, and I do
have some backups, but still.....
My thought is to run fdisk again and give it the entire disk
and then disklabel it with the one 'a' partition. Assuming that
I didn't write to the disk (I don't think I did), this should
work... Right?
Thanks,
--STeve Andre'
(red faced at the moment)
[relevant data]
paladin ~ fdisk sd1
Disk: sd1 geometry: 64601/240/63 [976773168 Sectors]
Offset: 0 Signature: 0x0
Starting Ending LBA Info:
#: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused
1: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused
2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused
3: A6 0 1 1 - 66 34 1 [ 63: 1000000 ] OpenBSD
paladin ~ disklabel sd1
# /dev/rsd1c:
type: SCSI
disk: SCSI disk
label: ST9500325AS
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 240
sectors/cylinder: 15120
cylinders: 64601
total sectors: 976773168
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
boundstart: 0
boundend: 976773168
drivedata: 0
16 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
c: 976773168 0 unused
paladin ~
