label editing

From: Erik Udo (erik.u_at_dnainternet.net)
Date: 10/23/04

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    Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 11:35:01 +0300
To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org

    So i got my partition back, and succesfully mounted it. All
    the old data was there. Now i just need my old slice on that
    partition back.

    Here's what happend in chronological order of what i did:
    - I boot 4.4 installdisk to fix mbr
    - I set ad0s1 as bootable, and write changes
    - Then i boot to HD installation of FreeBSD 5.3RC1
    - And then i notice, my 150GB partition is gone, it's now
    100GB 4.2BSD and 50GB unused
    - I delete 100GB partition, and merge 100GB and 50GB into
    one partition, and save changes.
    -I run gpart and scan_ffs unsuccesfully
    -Then i figured i can mount /dev/ad0s3, and that i didn't need labels.
    -And now i'm messing with disklabel -e to recover my old partition.

    Now remember i only did one slice on that partition some
    time ago using sysinstall. It was ad0s3d.

    Here's what bsdlabel -e /dev/ad0s3 gives me:

    # /dev/ad0s3:
    8 partitions:
    # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
      a: 398297072 16 unused 0 0
      c: 335389005 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part,
    don't edit

    Then i try to save it, with no modifications, i get:

    /tmp/EdDk.tiDLEmTpvt: 5 lines, 223 characters.
    partition a: partition extends past end of unit
    re-edit the label? [y]:

    So i'm asking for correct changes i could try to recover my
    lost slice.
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