Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 16:14:38 -0800 From: Henrik Hudson <lists@rhavenn.net> To: jeffry killen <jekillen@prodigy.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Salvage files from harddrive Message-ID: <20091007001438.GA6885@alucard.int.rhavenn.net> In-Reply-To: <2cd283d1fad03837950ef165cf75756c@prodigy.net> References: <2cd283d1fad03837950ef165cf75756c@prodigy.net>
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On Fri, 07 Oct 2011, jeffry killen wrote: > Hello; > I have a hard drive that contains the /var file system in a system that > will not boot. > In single user mode I can mount /var. > > I want to take this disk and put it in another FreeBSD system and > try to copy the files I need off of it to a safe place. > > The system I will plug it into will also have a separate disk with > /var. > > Is there going to be a conflict with the labels and how would I > best go about this? > > system is FreeBSD v6.2 > > Thank you in advance for guidance, suggestions. It shouldn't be a problem. If you stick the "broken" drive in a new system it will show up as a new device to the 2nd system. You will then manually mount the 1st system via the device node to wherever you want. It will not auto-mount that to /var . So, for example your 2nd system has /dev/ad4s1 as its main disk. When you plig the 2nd disk (from the old box) it will show up as /dev/ad5s1 or similar. YOu would then just mount the /var/ slice to wherever you want. For example: mount /dev/ad5sa6 /mnt/oldvar or similar. Please note that your device nodes and slice numbers will most likely be different. Henrik -- Henrik Hudson lists@rhavenn.net ----------------------------------------- "God, root, what is difference?" Pitr; UF
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