From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 23 6:40:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F06A637B71A for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 06:40:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 59290 invoked by uid 100); 23 Mar 2001 14:40:09 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15035.24649.367727.933938@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 08:40:09 -0600 To: "Kruppa, Peter Ulrich" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mounting bsd-partitions In-Reply-To: <111011767@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kruppa, Peter Ulrich 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. 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