From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 7 00:50:43 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72792106566B for ; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 00:50:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhellenthal@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f192.google.com (mail-qy0-f192.google.com [209.85.221.192]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 239288FC16 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 00:50:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk30 with SMTP id 30so5200714qyk.7 for ; Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:50:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:date:from:to:cc :subject:in-reply-to:message-id:references:user-agent :x-openpgp-key-id:x-openpgp-key-fingerprint:mime-version :content-type; bh=ZBpNcWjLBNMmakIp2LUtoB72eGRTlVkhMR/T6mtZHe8=; b=qnE4ZgSNGyNojfmrTtkgkygZF80pM2YJHE2K4MzSzozxtT/IIucms2TxieyT0E6Lam yssginnh1+P7g6jKE1WnGr+HUzxQKYA/aqgTfpKdG+0HnpplBYm4kTQxsJN86qmTvTCO NfjweOK3y/xXpCz5gSYqDHGPvaAfg/v+DuGY4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:date:from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:message-id:references :user-agent:x-openpgp-key-id:x-openpgp-key-fingerprint:mime-version :content-type; b=bYz5cEu5glNOTzcaP+F48L9WIwUF3qwi5jrKJvdWonKlPlmvh3fvfPQNZipXRXSsPC yJHa0LQHTjxcSkBVWIA6lFfWqicteIhIJE+lVRaeVbn8CP/w/cC8qFC4zIhpdHrAHI70 Q3KGelGCfoOAYvWS+VBziTcw0nuIsnGwGpSYM= Received: by 10.224.73.37 with SMTP id o37mr2000058qaj.252.1254876642481; Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:50:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dimension.5p.local (adsl-99-35-15-84.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net [99.35.15.84]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 8sm489796qwj.4.2009.10.06.17.50.40 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:50:41 -0700 (PDT) Sender: "J. Hellenthal" Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 20:50:39 -0400 From: jhell To: jeffry killen In-Reply-To: <2cd283d1fad03837950ef165cf75756c@prodigy.net> Message-ID: References: <2cd283d1fad03837950ef165cf75756c@prodigy.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) X-OpenPGP-Key-Id: 0x89D8547E X-OpenPGP-Key-Fingerprint: 85EF E26B 07BB 3777 76BE B12A 9057 8789 89D8 547E MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Salvage files from harddrive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:50:43 -0000 On Fri, 7 Oct 2011 04:07 -0700, jekillen@ wrote: > Hello; > I have a hard drive that contains the /var file system in a system that > will not boot. > In single user mode I can mount /var. > > I want to take this disk and put it in another FreeBSD system and > try to copy the files I need off of it to a safe place. > > The system I will plug it into will also have a separate disk with > /var. > > Is there going to be a conflict with the labels and how would I > best go about this? > > system is FreeBSD v6.2 > > Thank you in advance for guidance, suggestions. > JK > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > If you can mount this disk in single user mode your best bet to be safe is just glabel it to something else that your second system is not before you take the disk out of the machine. Even though I don't think it should/would be a problem I can not speak of a authoritative nature on this subject because I have not had to test such cases. Best regards. -- %{----------------------------------------------------+ | dataix.net!jhell 2048R/89D8547E 2009-09-30 | | BSD since FreeBSD 4.2 Linux since Slackware 2.1 | | 85EF E26B 07BB 3777 76BE B12A 9057 8789 89D8 547E | +----------------------------------------------------%}