From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 22 23:50:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from siafu.iconnect.co.ke (upagraha.iconnect.co.ke [209.198.248.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 388E237B71E for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 23:50:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wash@poeza.iconnect.co.ke) Received: from [212.22.161.3] (helo=ns2.iconnect.co.ke) by siafu.iconnect.co.ke with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 14gMJf-000KdI-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 10:48:59 +0300 Received: from amavis by ns2.iconnect.co.ke with scanned-ok (Exim 3.12 #1) id 14gML8-000Ifb-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 10:50:30 +0300 Received: from host-64-110-74-50.interpacket.net ([64.110.74.50] helo=poeza.iconnect.co.ke) by ns2.iconnect.co.ke with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 14gML3-000IYR-00; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 10:50:26 +0300 Received: from wash by poeza.iconnect.co.ke with local (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14gMN6-0005Ob-00; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 10:52:32 +0300 Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 10:52:32 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: root@pukruppa.de Subject: Re: mounting bsd-partitions Message-ID: <20010323105232.C19983@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, root@pukruppa.de References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="uXxzq0nDebZQVNAZ" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from "Kruppa, Peter Ulrich" on Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 06:16:34AM +0000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD poeza.iconnect.co.ke 4.3-BETA FreeBSD 4.3-BETA X-Location: Mombasa, KE, East Africa Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --uXxzq0nDebZQVNAZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Kruppa, Peter Ulrich [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,>=20 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,>=20 Kruppa,> All I can do is Kruppa,> # mount /dev/ad0s2 /mnt Kruppa,> which will mount the old release's root partition. Kruppa,>=20 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=20 mount /dev/ad0s2e on /mnt/var Something along those lines but I have to ask why you wanna make them visible anyway? -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Inter-Connect Ltd., wash@iconnect.co.ke 5th Flr Furaha Plaza Tel: 254 11 222604 Nkrumah Rd., Fax: 254 11 222636 PO Box 83613 MOMBASA, KE. He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace. -John Maso= n=20 Brown, drama critic=20 --uXxzq0nDebZQVNAZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6uwDAA2k+MNyI/bERAsnZAJ91jZaXotmuG/Cz09n/SsjjBe+m4gCgucaH igZU7OnbAgN16Aw0mB7hrDE= =k1kd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uXxzq0nDebZQVNAZ-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message