From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 18 21:17:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from PEON.knightstalker.net (pool-64-222-208-226.port.east.verizon.net [64.222.208.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CD8937B400 for ; Sat, 18 May 2002 21:17:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from screamer (screamer.knightstalker.net [192.168.0.1]) by PEON.knightstalker.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g4J4JIU30254 for ; Sun, 19 May 2002 00:19:19 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from knight@knightstalker.net) Message-ID: <00c201c1feec$b36c9820$0100a8c0@screamer> From: "knight" To: Subject: Mounting an existing file system. Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 00:21:50 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_00BF_01C1FECB.2BBB35B0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00BF_01C1FECB.2BBB35B0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable OK...I Know this has been addressed. I am just hoping to save time. I = have had to create a new freebsd box. I have done so and the system is = running fine. I have a drive that had an existing system on it. I want = to mount that drive on the new box. Now the question. How do I mount the old drive when there are no files = in /dev to mount with. I remember doing this once before, and for the = life of me I can not remember how to generate the /dev/adxxx file for = the existing slices. Any help is greatly appreciated. ------=_NextPart_000_00BF_01C1FECB.2BBB35B0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

OK...I Know this has been = addressed. I am=20 just hoping to save time. I have had to create a new freebsd = box. I=20 have done so and the system is running fine. I have a drive that = had an=20 existing system on it. I want to mount that drive on the new=20 box.

Now the question. How do I mount = the old=20 drive when there are no files in /dev to mount with. I remember = doing this=20 once before, and for the life of me I can not remember how to generate = the=20 /dev/adxxx file for the existing slices.

Any help is greatly = appreciated.

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