Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 15:53:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de> To: Odhiambo Washington <wash@iconnect.co.ke> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: mounting bsd-partitions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103231543161.481-100000@pukruppa.de> In-Reply-To: <20010323105232.C19983@poeza.iconnect.co.ke>
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First of all: Thanx for your answer! Please have a look at the "bottom": On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > * Kruppa, Peter Ulrich <root@pukruppa.de> [20010323 08:27]: writing on the subject 'mounting bsd-partitions' > Kruppa,> I am running two FreeBSD's : > Kruppa,> old Release on: new Release on: > Kruppa,> /dev/ad0s2 /dev/ad1s4 > Kruppa,> > Kruppa,> Let us say, I have booted into my new Release and I would like to mount > Kruppa,> the old Release's /usr partition. Then > Kruppa,> # mount /dev/ad0s2d /mnt > Kruppa,> will be replied by > Kruppa,> mount: /dev/ad0s2d no such file or directory. > Kruppa,> (the same thing will happen with ad0s1a or any other letter) > Kruppa,> > Kruppa,> All I can do is > Kruppa,> # mount /dev/ad0s2 /mnt > Kruppa,> which will mount the old release's root partition. > Kruppa,> > Kruppa,> How can I make the other partitions visible?. > > > Since you know them by slice names, why not try mounting then individually > > mount /dev/ad0s2a on /mnt > mount /dev/ad0s2f on /mnt/usr > mount /dev/ad0s2e on /mnt/var This is exactly what does not work! It will say, there is no such file or directory. > Something along those lines but I have to ask why you wanna make them > visible anyway? Actually I bought a second harddrive and I want to move FreeBSD to a big partition on it. While I am doing this I am trying some new things (4.3 beta) and I would like to have a look at my old - well working - 4.0 sometimes. You are right my life does not depend on it, but actually this is a simple thing that should work, should it not? Uli. ################################################### # # # www.pukruppa.de www.2000d.de # # # ################################################### To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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