Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 14:29:53 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting to a second hard disk Message-ID: <447DEEB1.4060603@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a0605311108i56866d3er7080dc60cdb55fe1@mail.gmail.com> References: <012001c684ae$cbecaf60$0207a8c0@P800> <447D9BFC.9080304@daleco.biz> <20060531145106.GA56445@gothmog.pc> <ef10de9a0605311108i56866d3er7080dc60cdb55fe1@mail.gmail.com>
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Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 5/31/06, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: >> On 2006-05-31 08:37, Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> wrote: >> >Philip Radford wrote: >> >>Hi All, >> >> I have just installed FreeBSD 5.4 on a server with two hard disks. >> > >> > Cool ... :) >> >> Nice :) >> > > No Comment. > >> >> I have access to all my partitions on the first disk :- >> >> >> >> /dev/ad0s1a - / >> >> /dev/ad0s1e - /tmp >> >> /dev/ad0s1f - /usr >> >> /dev/ad0s1d - /var >> >> >> >> How do I go about mounting to the second drive which I >> >> assume would start with /dev/ad1* >> > >> > $ dmesg | grep ad >> >> Another way is through atacontrol: >> >> # atacontrol list > > A simple 'ls /dev/ad*' should suffice in most circumstances. But if the disk hasn't been partitioned and sliced, the only entry will be for the disk itself, which will be not be able to be mounted. The OP wondered why adNs1n wasn't there, and the line from dmesg gives more information and identifies the disk, positively. And, face it, if it 'twere you or I, we'd probably have done both (or all three) by now. Philip said he had now noticed handbook 17.3, so we'll leave him alone until he has _another_ question ;-). KDK -- No good deed goes unpunished. -- Clare Boothe Luce
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