Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:46:45 +0100 From: tomasz dereszynski <tomaszd@paraklet.net> To: jeffry killen <jekillen@prodigy.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Salvage files from harddrive Message-ID: <4AE0D2C5.8080206@paraklet.net> In-Reply-To: <2cd283d1fad03837950ef165cf75756c@prodigy.net> References: <2cd283d1fad03837950ef165cf75756c@prodigy.net>
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jeffry killen 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
Nay,
you need to check as what 'device' that partition has been recognised on
your 'new' system and mount it wherever you like
e.g.
mkdir /tmp/old-var
mount /dev/da0s1a /mnt/old-var
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