From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 23 7: 1:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from moutvdom00.kundenserver.de (moutvdom00.kundenserver.de [195.20.224.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6268937B718 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 07:01:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@pukruppa.de) Received: from [195.20.224.204] (helo=mrvdom00.schlund.de) by moutvdom00.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 14gT3s-00039Q-00; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 16:01:08 +0100 Received: from pd901721c.dip.t-dialin.net ([217.1.114.28]) by mrvdom00.schlund.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 14gT3o-0004hf-00; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 16:01:04 +0100 Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 15:53:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa To: Odhiambo Washington Cc: Subject: Re: mounting bsd-partitions In-Reply-To: <20010323105232.C19983@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 [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