From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 18 22: 0:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serv1.wallnet.com (server1.wallnet.com [208.225.162.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9E0637B425 for ; Sat, 18 May 2002 22:00:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by serv1.wallnet.com (8.11.5/8.11.5) id g4J50IN32423; Sun, 19 May 2002 01:00:18 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com) Received: from localhost (timothyk@localhost) by serv1.wallnet.com (8.11.5/8.11.5av) with ESMTP id g4J50Eg32408; Sun, 19 May 2002 01:00:14 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com) X-Authentication-Warning: serv1.wallnet.com: timothyk owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 01:00:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Kellers To: knight Cc: Subject: Re: Mounting an existing file system. In-Reply-To: <00c201c1feec$b36c9820$0100a8c0@screamer> Message-ID: <20020519005506.K31652-100000@serv1.wallnet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 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 There are several ways to do this. i'll go for the simplest because I don't know what your "other" drive's FS is, and because I'm kind of a simple guy. As root, run /stand/sysinstall... select Configure and fdisk and see if your hd is there. If it is, select Q, get out of fdisk, and select Disklabel. Mount the new drive on /mnt and read your files. The troubling line in your e-mail is "How do I mount the old drive when there are no files in /dev to mount with" Unhless you are placing a SCSI drive in an IDE system (or vice versa) the /dev files should all be in there. Of course, I could be missing something profound. Tim On Sun, 19 May 2002, 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. > > Any help is greatly appreciated. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message