From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 30 21:37:06 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D3C316A407 for ; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:37:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@digitalbluesky.net) Received: from sumopower.net (kagome.sumopower.net [217.160.240.195]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD53713C428 for ; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:37:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@digitalbluesky.net) Received: from willow.digitalbluesky.net ([66.93.10.46]) by sumopower.net with SMTP (Code-Crafters Ability Mail Server 2.55); Sat, 30 Dec 2006 16:17:04 -0500 Message-Id: <6.2.1.2.0.20061230160735.0203a008@mail.digitalbluesky.net> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.2.1.2 Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 16:17:01 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Steve Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: how to mount an already freebsd paritioned external usb drive onto a new freebsd install X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:37:06 -0000 Hi, I was running FreebBSD 5.x until a few days ago at home on a little shuttle cube server with a celeron processor when my hard drive appeared to develop multiple problems and finally died. I had a western digital external usb hard drive attached to the server that I used for daily backups. So I got a new hard drive and installeed FreeBSD 6.1 on it. I have plugged in the WD external usb drive and ran: dmesg camcontrol devlist And the WD usb drive seems to recognized by the system and all is well. The WD usb drive has a freebsd partition on it already. I want to mount this drive so I can start to move backed up data to the new box, but reading through the handbook and doing a google search, I'm still not clear exactly how to do it. I don't remember how I had setup the old box to mount the drive as I had done it almost two years ago. If someone can tell me what to do or point me in the right direction it would be appreciated. I really don't want to mess this up. Steve Bopple www.digitalbluesky.net