From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 31 19:30:25 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3029A16BBC7 for ; Wed, 31 May 2006 19:30:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4267543D81 for ; Wed, 31 May 2006 19:30:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [192.168.2.2] ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k4VJTwnt043518; Wed, 31 May 2006 14:29:59 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <447DEEB1.4060603@daleco.biz> Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 14:29:53 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060509 SeaMonkey/1.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nikolas Britton References: <012001c684ae$cbecaf60$0207a8c0@P800> <447D9BFC.9080304@daleco.biz> <20060531145106.GA56445@gothmog.pc> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting to a second hard disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 19:30:35 -0000 Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 5/31/06, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> On 2006-05-31 08:37, Kevin Kinsey wrote: >> >Philip Radford wrote: >> >>Hi All, >> >> I have just installed FreeBSD 5.4 on a server with two hard disks. >> > >> > Cool ... :) >> >> Nice :) >> > > No Comment. > >> >> I have access to all my partitions on the first disk :- >> >> >> >> /dev/ad0s1a - / >> >> /dev/ad0s1e - /tmp >> >> /dev/ad0s1f - /usr >> >> /dev/ad0s1d - /var >> >> >> >> How do I go about mounting to the second drive which I >> >> assume would start with /dev/ad1* >> > >> > $ dmesg | grep ad >> >> Another way is through atacontrol: >> >> # atacontrol list > > A simple 'ls /dev/ad*' should suffice in most circumstances. But if the disk hasn't been partitioned and sliced, the only entry will be for the disk itself, which will be not be able to be mounted. The OP wondered why adNs1n wasn't there, and the line from dmesg gives more information and identifies the disk, positively. And, face it, if it 'twere you or I, we'd probably have done both (or all three) by now. Philip said he had now noticed handbook 17.3, so we'll leave him alone until he has _another_ question ;-). KDK -- No good deed goes unpunished. -- Clare Boothe Luce