From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 29 14:08:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82F2716A4CE for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 14:08:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from srvdmz13.oekb.co.at (srvdmz13.oekb.co.at [143.245.5.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0995943D48 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 14:08:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Ewald.Jenisch@oekb.at) Received: from Unknown [143.245.2.191] by srvdmz13.oekb.co.at - SurfControl E-mail Filter (4.7); Fri, 29 Oct 2004 16:08:31 +0200 Received: from athena.oekb.co.at ([143.245.83.20]) by MAIL01.oekb.co.at with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Fri, 29 Oct 2004 16:08:31 +0200 Received: from athena.oekb.co.at (athena.oekb.co.at [127.0.0.1]) by athena.oekb.co.at (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i9TE8ewo005113 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 16:08:40 +0200 Received: (from ej@localhost) by athena.oekb.co.at (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i9TE8er2005112 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 16:08:40 +0200 Message-ID: <20041029140840.GA5085@athena.oekb.co.at> From: Ewald Jenisch To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 16:08:40 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Oct 2004 14:08:31.0234 (UTC) FILETIME=[C5284E20:01C4BDC0] User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Accessing partitions using FIXIT/Live-System-CDROM? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 14:08:35 -0000 Hi, After wiping out my system :-(, i.e. the root-partition and parts of /usr I'd like to rescue any data that might be left on the machine, like /home, /var etc. So I booted with the "Live-CDROM" (#2) and went to the Fixit Menu item. However I can't mount any paritions beside the original root-partition. To be specifc: My harddisk basically is one FreeBSD-slice, da0. da0 is divided into several partitions like da0s1a (root), da0s1h (home) etc. Using the live-system CD (fixit) I can do mount /dev/da0s1 /mnt (note it's da0s1, not da0s1a as I'd expected) However when trying to mount another partition (like "h") I get the following error: mount /dev/da0s1h /mnt3 mount: /dev/da0s1h: Operation not permitted Since there was no entry in /dev for da0s1h (only for da0s1, the complete slice), I set one up with mknod. This entry is exactly the same (major/minor) as the corresponding entry in my original /dev/da0s1h had which at that time is mounted as /mnt/dev. Even when having an entry for the partition in question (da0s1h in the example) I cant' mount that partition. Sure enough the data still seems to be there - the question for me is how do I mount these partitions so I can get the data off the machine before installing it from scratch? Thanks much in advance for any clue, -ewald