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Date:      Fri, 23 Mar 2001 10:52:32 +0300
From:      Odhiambo Washington <wash@iconnect.co.ke>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        root@pukruppa.de
Subject:   Re: mounting bsd-partitions
Message-ID:  <20010323105232.C19983@poeza.iconnect.co.ke>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103180830550.253-100000@pukruppa.de>; from "Kruppa, Peter Ulrich" on Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 06:16:34AM %2B0000
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103180830550.253-100000@pukruppa.de>

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* 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,>=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

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