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Date:      Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:22:46 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        Joshua Lewis <joshua.lewis@familyfunzone.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mount an unknown drive
Message-ID:  <44zmex3gsp.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060724181939.e72c8bd2fa3c8298c4bf39a8c4c61b77.cfec2272ae.wbe@email.secureserver.net> (Joshua Lewis's message of "Mon, 24 Jul 2006 18:19:39 -0700")
References:  <20060724181939.e72c8bd2fa3c8298c4bf39a8c4c61b77.cfec2272ae.wbe@email.secureserver.net>

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Joshua Lewis <joshua.lewis@familyfunzone.net> writes:

>    I have a server that has been inoperative for the last few months
>    (FreeBSD 6.0). I decided to turn on the system and it goes right to a
>    boot prompt. So I downloaded FreeSBIE and am trying to mount the old
>    drive to see if there is any data on the drive worth saving. When I
>    try to mount /dev/ad0s1f /mnt I get a device busy message. Am I even
>    trying to mount the correct slice. I have tried s1a - s1f.
>
>
>
>    Is it possible it was already mounted and that is why it says it is
>    busy. There is nothing in dmesg that shows asd0*.

Look in /dev for ad*.



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