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Date:      Fri, 23 Mar 2001 15:53:25 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de>
To:        Odhiambo Washington <wash@iconnect.co.ke>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: mounting bsd-partitions
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103231543161.481-100000@pukruppa.de>
In-Reply-To: <20010323105232.C19983@poeza.iconnect.co.ke>

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First of all: Thanx for your answer!

Please have a look at the "bottom":
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Odhiambo Washington wrote:

> * Kruppa, Peter Ulrich <root@pukruppa.de> [20010323 08:27]: writing on the subject 'mounting bsd-partitions'
> Kruppa,> I am running two FreeBSD's :
> Kruppa,> old Release on:		new Release on:
> Kruppa,> /dev/ad0s2		/dev/ad1s4
> Kruppa,>
> Kruppa,> Let us say, I have booted into my new Release and I would like to mount
> Kruppa,> the old Release's /usr partition. Then
> Kruppa,> # mount /dev/ad0s2d /mnt
> Kruppa,> will be replied by
> Kruppa,> mount: /dev/ad0s2d no such file or directory.
> Kruppa,> (the same thing will happen with ad0s1a or any other letter)
> Kruppa,>
> Kruppa,> All I can do is
> Kruppa,> # mount /dev/ad0s2 /mnt
> Kruppa,> which will mount the old release's root partition.
> Kruppa,>
> Kruppa,> How can I make the other partitions visible?.
>
>
> Since you know them by slice names, why not try mounting then individually
>
> mount /dev/ad0s2a on /mnt
> mount /dev/ad0s2f on /mnt/usr
> mount /dev/ad0s2e on /mnt/var
This is exactly what does not work!
It will say, there is no such file or directory.


> Something along those lines but I have to ask why you wanna make them
> visible anyway?
Actually I bought a second harddrive and I want to move FreeBSD to a big
partition on it. While I am doing this I am trying some new things (4.3
beta) and I would like to have a look at my old - well working - 4.0
sometimes.
You are right my life does not depend on it, but actually this is a simple
thing that should work, should it not?

Uli.


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