On 12/31/06, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
I was running FreebBSD 5.x until a few days ago at home on a little shuttle
cube server with a celeron processor when my hard drive appeared to develop
multiple problems and finally died. I had a western digital external usb
hard drive attached to the server that I used for daily backups. So I got
a new hard drive and installeed FreeBSD 6.1 on it. I have plugged in the
WD external usb drive and ran:
dmesg
camcontrol devlist
And the WD usb drive seems to recognized by the system and all is
well. The WD usb drive has a freebsd partition on it already. I want to
mount this drive so I can start to move backed up data to the new box, but
reading through the handbook and doing a google search, I'm still not clear
exactly how to do it. I don't remember how I had setup the old box to
mount the drive as I had done it almost two years ago.
If someone can tell me what to do or point me in the right direction it
would be appreciated. I really don't want to mess this up.
Assuming the drive you want to mount is /dev/da0, you
should first determine what slices and partitions it
has. It's very easy, just "ls /dev/da0*" for that. Let's
pretend you see something like this:
/dev/da0
/dev/da0s1
/dev/da0s1a
/dev/da0s1b
/dev/da0s1c
/dev/da0s1d
/dev/da0s1e
It might be a lot simpler or a lot more complicated. This
exact result means you have one slice (s1) and several
partitions (a-e). "b" is a swap partition, "c" represents
the whole slice, you only have to mount "a", "d" and "e".
mkdir -p /mnt/a /mnt/d /mnt/e
mount /dev/da0s1a /mnt/a
mount /dev/da0s1d /mnt/d
mount /dev/da0s1e /mnt/e
Use "mount -r" instead of just "mount" to make them read-
only (for safety).
Good luck!
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