Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 10:00:55 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: David Larkin <David.Larkin@djl.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org>, Nick Hibma <n_hibma@calcaphon.com> Subject: Re: mounting old filesystem - Re: panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs Message-ID: <45364.958032055@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 May 2000 17:05:06 %2B0100." <391988B1.F8D15766@DJL.co.uk>
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On Wed, 10 May 2000 17:05:06 +0100, David Larkin wrote: > What I want to do is try and mount my old /usr partition > and hopefully recover some files. > > I was hoping to do something like > > mount /dev/wd1s1f /mnt > > but /dev/wd1s1f does not exist Does wd1s1f exist? You probably just have to create the device nodes in the /dev directory. > I guess I need to do 'newfs' or something similar, but > the man page is a little cryptic. Oh, I wouldn't do that. The newfs(8) utility will create a new filesystem, overwriting whatever was there before. :-) Try this: cd /dev ./MAKEDEV wd1s1f :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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