Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 01:00:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Kellers <timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com> To: knight <knight@knightstalker.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mounting an existing file system. Message-ID: <20020519005506.K31652-100000@serv1.wallnet.com> In-Reply-To: <00c201c1feec$b36c9820$0100a8c0@screamer>
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There are several ways to do this. i'll go for the simplest because I don't know what your "other" drive's FS is, and because I'm kind of a simple guy. As root, run /stand/sysinstall... select Configure and fdisk and see if your hd is there. If it is, select Q, get out of fdisk, and select Disklabel. Mount the new drive on /mnt and read your files. The troubling line in your e-mail is "How do I mount the old drive when there are no files in /dev to mount with" Unhless you are placing a SCSI drive in an IDE system (or vice versa) the /dev files should all be in there. Of course, I could be missing something profound. Tim On Sun, 19 May 2002, knight wrote: > 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. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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