Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 00:21:50 -0400 From: "knight" <knight@knightstalker.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Mounting an existing file system. Message-ID: <00c201c1feec$b36c9820$0100a8c0@screamer>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00BF_01C1FECB.2BBB35B0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable OK...I Know this has been addressed. I am just hoping to save time. I = have had to create a new freebsd box. I have done so and the system is = running fine. I have a drive that had an existing system on it. I want = to mount that drive on the new box. Now the question. How do I mount the old drive when there are no files = in /dev to mount with. I remember doing this once before, and for the = life of me I can not remember how to generate the /dev/adxxx file for = the existing slices. Any help is greatly appreciated. ------=_NextPart_000_00BF_01C1FECB.2BBB35B0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.50.4915.500" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>OK...I Know this has been = addressed. I am=20 just hoping to save time. I have had to create a new freebsd = box. I=20 have done so and the system is running fine. I have a drive that = had an=20 existing system on it. I want to mount that drive on the new=20 box.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Now the question. How do I mount = the old=20 drive when there are no files in /dev to mount with. I remember = doing this=20 once before, and for the life of me I can not remember how to generate = the=20 /dev/adxxx file for the existing slices.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Any help is greatly = appreciated.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_00BF_01C1FECB.2BBB35B0-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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