Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 08:40:09 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Kruppa, Peter Ulrich" <root@pukruppa.de> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mounting bsd-partitions Message-ID: <15035.24649.367727.933938@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <111011767@toto.iv>
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Kruppa, Peter Ulrich <root@pukruppa.de> types: > I am running two FreeBSD's : > old Release on: new Release on: > /dev/ad0s2 /dev/ad1s4 > > Let us say, I have booted into my new Release and I would like to mount > the old Release's /usr partition. Then > # mount /dev/ad0s2d /mnt > will be replied by > mount: /dev/ad0s2d no such file or directory. > (the same thing will happen with ad0s1a or any other letter) > > All I can do is > # mount /dev/ad0s2 /mnt > which will mount the old release's root partition. > > How can I make the other partitions visible?. Sounds like you need to make the devices. If /dev/ad0s2d doesn't exist, try "# cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV ad0s2h" to create the partition devices. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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