Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 12:51:10 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: jeffry killen <jekillen@prodigy.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: salvaging hard drive contents Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0910081247140.24425@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <c1d51f0fbd14910fb7121c3e6fad565f@prodigy.net> References: <c1d51f0fbd14910fb7121c3e6fad565f@prodigy.net>
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On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, jeffry killen wrote: > Now I have the hard disk I want to recover mounted but please for give me > for being in the learning phase, but how to I cd on to this drive? > > I mounted it using the suggested 'mount -r (in this case ad12s1d) /var' > now how do I actually read it? What you've done there is mount your salvage drive over your running system's /var. That's probably going to give you problems, possibly very quickly. Just umounting the incorrect /var is probably not going to be enough. You might have to reboot. Once that's cleared up, use a mountpoint that's not doing anything. /mnt is commonly used for that. mount -r /dev/ad12s1d /mnt Then /mnt contains the salvage drive's var filesystem: cd /mnt ls -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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