From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 25 15:13:32 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 9669B16A4DF for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 15:13:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joshua.lewis@familyfunzone.net) Received: from smtpout15-02.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (smtpout15-02.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net [68.178.232.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1B7EA43D70 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 15:13:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joshua.lewis@familyfunzone.net) Received: (qmail 21299 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2006 15:13:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gem-wbe16.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net) (64.202.189.224) by smtpout15-02.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net with SMTP; 25 Jul 2006 15:13:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 23841 invoked by uid 99); 25 Jul 2006 15:13:28 -0000 Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 08:13:27 -0700 From: Joshua Lewis To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060725081327.e72c8bd2fa3c8298c4bf39a8c4c61b77.50276544ba.wbe@email.secureserver.net> User-Agent: Web-Based Email 4.3.16 X-Originating-IP: 65.193.202.231 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: RE: Mount an unknown drive 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: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 15:13:32 -0000 I got some sleep and thought about it some more and was wondering if it is possible that FreeSBIE (Running FreeBSD 5.3) simply can't read my drive that was formated durring an install of 6.0. Or has it not changed enough to cause that problem? There is a: /dev/ad0s1a /dev/ad0s1b /dev/ad0s1c /dev/ad0s1d /dev/ad0s1e /dev/ad0s1f I treid to mount all of those last night. mount /dev/ad0s1f /mnt I also tried mount -t ufs /dev/ad0s1f /mnt Same results every time. The device is busy. Sincerely, Joshua Lewis -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Mount an unknown drive From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Tue, July 25, 2006 10:22 am To: Joshua Lewis Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Joshua Lewis writes: > I have a server that has been inoperative for the last few months > (FreeBSD 6.0). I decided to turn on the system and it goes right to a > boot prompt. So I downloaded FreeSBIE and am trying to mount the old > drive to see if there is any data on the drive worth saving. When I > try to mount /dev/ad0s1f /mnt I get a device busy message. Am I even > trying to mount the correct slice. I have tried s1a - s1f. > > > > Is it possible it was already mounted and that is why it says it is > busy. There is nothing in dmesg that shows asd0*. Look in /dev for ad*.