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Date:      Sat, 23 May 1998 17:25:25 -0400 (EDT)
From:      CyberPeasant <djv@bedford.net>
To:        suleyman@echonyc.com (Ken Seggerman)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Mounting another local disk
Message-ID:  <199805232125.RAA29055@lucy.bedford.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980523125843.26715A-100000@echonyc.com> from Ken Seggerman at "May 23, 98 01:40:26 pm"

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Ken Seggerman wrote:
> I have two hard disks, the first, /dev/rdw0 is 2GB and has Windows 95 and
> FreeBSD 2.2.2 on it, in that order.
> 
> The second /dev/rdw0 is 4GB and has FreeBSD 2.2.5 and Widnows NT on it. 
> 
> Now that I have 2.2.5 up and running, the FreeBSD 2.2.2 slice on /dev/rdw0
> is sort of wasted space. I intend at some point to get a hold of Partition
> Magic and give the space back to Windows95.
> 
> In the mean time, I would like to mount the 2.2.2 file system from 2.2.5,
> but I am having a hard time with the mount command. 
> 
> I am assuming that what I want to do is perfectly do-able, but that I just
> don't have the syntax to do so.
> 
> #mkdir /disk1
> # mount -t ufs /dev/rwd0 /disk1
> /dev/rwd0 on /disk1: Block device required

Yeah, r... is a raw device.

> 
> 
> an fdisk of /dev/rwd0 looks like this:
> 
> Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
> Information from DOS bootblock is:
> The data for partition 1 is:
> sysid 6,(Primary 'big' DOS (> 32MB))
>     start 63, size 2927169 (1429 Meg), flag 0
>         beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1;
>         end: cyl 362/ sector 63/ head 127
> The data for partition 2 is:
> sysid 5,(Extended DOS)
>     start 4193280, size 798336 (389 Meg), flag 0
>         beg: cyl 520/ sector 1/ head 0;
>         end: cyl 618/ sector 63/ head 127
> The data for partition 3 is:
> sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
>     start 2927232, size 1266048 (618 Meg), flag 0
>         beg: cyl 363/ sector 1/ head 0;
>         end: cyl 519/ sector 63/ head 127
> The data for partition 4 is:
> <UNUSED>
> 
> Thanks
>

Looks like your BSD partition is slice 3. So your mount command
is going to look like:

	mount /dev/wd0s3X /disk1

Problem is, we need a value for X here, to pick the BSD partition
within the slice. (ie a,b,c,d,.....)  To list these partitons, 
use "disklabel".

	disklabel /dev/rwd0s3

Output will include at its end a description of the partitions:
8 partitions:
#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
  a:   131072        0    4.2BSD        0     0     0   # (Cyl.    0 - 8*)
  b:   262144   131072      swap                        # (Cyl.    8*- 24*)
  c:  2088450        0    unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 129)
  e:   144585   393216    4.2BSD        0     0     0   # (Cyl.   24*- 33)
  f:  1204875   537801    4.2BSD        0     0     0   # (Cyl.   33*- 108)
  g:   345774  1742676    4.2BSD        0     0     0   # (Cyl.  108*- 129*)
[root@castor /root]# 

(from a disk of mine). so, to mount partitiion "e" of slice 3,

	mount /dev/wd0s3e /disk1

To mount other partitions, maybe make other mount points, or mount on
a point brought in with a mount. (Confusing...)  That disk just listed
is my "root" disk: a is the / partition, b is swap, c is "whole slice"
(not to be mounted), d is undefined, e is /var, f is /usr and g is /home

To mount that whole thing on a mount point, I would do:

	mount /dev/wd0s3a /disk1
	mount /dev/wd0s3e /disk1/var
	mount /dev/wd0s3f /disk1/usr
	mount /dev/wd0s3g /disk1/home

Dave
-- 
        Is the true purpose of Unix its use, or its administration?

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