From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 18 21:36:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from h24-207-15-177.cst.dccnet.com (h24-207-15-177.cst.dccnet.com [24.207.15.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0B6437B40B for ; Sat, 18 May 2002 21:36:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dccnet.com (kevine01.ugaloo.org [192.168.192.2]) by h24-207-15-177.cst.dccnet.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EFF02FD; Sat, 18 May 2002 21:36:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3CE72BC9.3000508@dccnet.com> Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 21:36:25 -0700 From: "Kevin G. Eliuk" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: knight Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting an existing file system. References: <00c201c1feec$b36c9820$0100a8c0@screamer> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 knight wrote: > 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. as root # cd /dev # ./MAKEDEV ad[drive #] If you need extended drive access # ./MAKEDEV ad[drive #]s[part. #]a man MAKEDEV and/or read the top of the MAKEDEV script To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message