It took about 10 days of 16-20hrs per day of gruelling computer forensics and recovery to get back all data from my 140GB (120 + 20) corrupted partitions.
Dude I took that much time reading the docs before I actually installed (and you ask why it did what it did to you?).
If Ubuntu is *Linux for Human Beings* FreeBSD is the closest to a *BSD for Human Beings*. Yet 'tis more difficult than the geekiest Linux distros ... enjoy!!!
- farazs