I from what I can gather. Changes have been made to the filesystem handling from FreeBSD 7.0 to 8.0.
I am a FreeBSD newbie, so I could easily be my own fault. That being said. I believe that the data is still on the disks but the MBR/Slices/lables have been wiped or somehow damaged. Right now sysinstall -> slices and label sees the disk as empty.
Tried testdisk, normal scan revealed nothing, running deeper scan right now.
Can anyone tell me how to add a slice covering the entire disk like I had before? Without actually doing any damage to data that might be on the disk. Enabling me to mount /dev/ad4s1d and see if the data survived.
I have been reading a ton of blogs, posts on the topic. But can't really find a straight answer when It comes to just creating the slices and not touching the raw data on the disk.
Othervise I will just have to accept the data loss and start over
I am a FreeBSD newbie, so I could easily be my own fault. That being said. I believe that the data is still on the disks but the MBR/Slices/lables have been wiped or somehow damaged. Right now sysinstall -> slices and label sees the disk as empty.
Tried testdisk, normal scan revealed nothing, running deeper scan right now.
Can anyone tell me how to add a slice covering the entire disk like I had before? Without actually doing any damage to data that might be on the disk. Enabling me to mount /dev/ad4s1d and see if the data survived.
I have been reading a ton of blogs, posts on the topic. But can't really find a straight answer when It comes to just creating the slices and not touching the raw data on the disk.
Othervise I will just have to accept the data loss and start over