Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 14:28:11 +0900 From: till plewe <till.plewe@gmail.com> To: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cannot mount slices of usbdrive Message-ID: <8be8566f0905012228y5aa3589bq4bf41af82a5d7dd7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090502050319.GB2871@rebelion.Sisis.de> References: <8be8566f0905012106ld6509aeh754383d7b4b1c646@mail.gmail.com> <20090502050319.GB2871@rebelion.Sisis.de>
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On 5/2/09, Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote: > El d=C3=ADa Saturday, May 02, 2009 a las 01:06:09PM +0900, till plewe esc= ribi=C3=B3: > >> I have a usbdrive which was used on FreeBSD 6 or 7 but cannot >> be mounted now (on CURRENT with generic kernel). The drive is >> recognized but the individual slices do not seem to exist (see below). > ... > > I have had the same problem: booting CURRENT from an USB key and wanting > to get access to the SSD partitions created with RELENG_7 kernel in the > EeePC. I've found no way to do and labeled the SSD from scratch (had > even to overwrite the 1st blocks with dd(1) to make fdisk(1M) create > partitions there). > > In your case: boot a RELENG_7 rescue CD, mount the usbdrive and backup > the data (via LAN) to some other place. > > matthias > Thanks. That sounds much more reasonable than what I was planning to do. I don't know why I wasn't thinking of the rescue CDs (most likely since I did not have to use them before). I'll give it a try once I find a big enough backup disk. - Till > -- > Matthias Apitz > Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH > Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany > t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 > e <matthias.apitz@oclc.org> - w http://www.oclc.org/ http://www.UnixArea.= de/ > People who hate Microsoft Windows use Linux but people who love UNIX use > FreeBSD. >
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