Re: How do I mount slices with no dev entry from fixit floppy?
On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 02:23:17PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: : Do you mean that ad0s1 is not in /dev? That would be the slice. : Or do you mean no ad0s1g - which would be the partition inside the slice? It's the partition that I mean, then. : Also, careful of your use of the word mounted. Nothing should : be mounted on /dev/ad0s1g or there would be problems. But : what you want is the partition at /dev/ad0s1g and you want to : mount that on some mount point such as /mnt or maybe /oldusr if : you can make that dir. Oops, that's what I meant. I need to mount /dev/ad0s1g to /mnt or whatever mountpoint I will use. : How sure are you that your old /usr was in partition /dev/ad0s1g? : Is it possible you are looking in the wrong place? That's what I see when I 'cat /mnt/etc/fstab' with my old drive / mounted on /mnt. : I have not had to use the fixit disks so I am not sure of what all : is included, but I would be surprised if there is no MAKEDEV script : if it is for FreeBSD 4.xxx or older version. In 4.xxx and earlier, : the MAKEDEV script is in /dev. You need to cd to /dev and then : run './MAKEDEV ad0'.NOTE, the './' is necessary because MAKEDEV : will not be in your path. I'll look again, but I only saw a few devices listed, and no script. : Try doing : : cd / : mount /dev/ad0s1g /mnt : cd /mnt : ls I'll try tonight, but I think it complains that ad0s1g doesn't exist. OK. Have you noticed the frequent mentions of the difference between 4.xxx FreeBSD and 5.xxx FreeBSD. It is completely different. Which are you attempting to use? jerry jm -- My other computer is your Windows box. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How do I mount slices with no dev entry from fixit floppy?
I am making progress with my disk recovery, but I need to get to my /usr partition, which is mounted on /dev/ad0s1g. The dev entries on the fixit floppy don't have this slice listed, and there is no MAKEDEVS script to add it. How can I get to this partition? jm -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I mount slices with no dev entry from fixit floppy?
I am making progress with my disk recovery, but I need to get to my /usr partition, which is mounted on /dev/ad0s1g. The dev entries on the fixit floppy don't have this slice listed, and there is no MAKEDEVS script to add it. Do you mean that ad0s1 is not in /dev? That would be the slice. Or do you mean no ad0s1g - which would be the partition inside the slice? Also, careful of your use of the word mounted. Nothing should be mounted on /dev/ad0s1g or there would be problems. But what you want is the partition at /dev/ad0s1g and you want to mount that on some mount point such as /mnt or maybe /oldusr if you can make that dir. How sure are you that your old /usr was in partition /dev/ad0s1g? Is it possible you are looking in the wrong place? I have not had to use the fixit disks so I am not sure of what all is included, but I would be surprised if there is no MAKEDEV script if it is for FreeBSD 4.xxx or older version. In 4.xxx and earlier, the MAKEDEV script is in /dev. You need to cd to /dev and then run './MAKEDEV ad0'.NOTE, the './' is necessary because MAKEDEV will not be in your path. But, in 5.xxx and later there is no MAKEDEV. If you are in 5.xxx version then you shouldn't need it. It is supposed to deal with it automagically. Try doing cd / mount /dev/ad0s1g /mnt cd /mnt ls What is there? If it is FreeBSD 5.xxx then maybe there is a bug if it cannot do the mount because /dev/ad0s1g is missing , but really exists on disk. If it is FreeBSD 4.xxx do cd /dev ./MAKEDEV ad0 or even./MAKEDEV ad0s1g and see what happens. Someone else weigh in here if this is way off track. jerry How can I get to this partition? jm -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I mount slices with no dev entry from fixit floppy?
On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 02:23:17PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: : Do you mean that ad0s1 is not in /dev? That would be the slice. : Or do you mean no ad0s1g - which would be the partition inside the slice? It's the partition that I mean, then. : Also, careful of your use of the word mounted. Nothing should : be mounted on /dev/ad0s1g or there would be problems. But : what you want is the partition at /dev/ad0s1g and you want to : mount that on some mount point such as /mnt or maybe /oldusr if : you can make that dir. Oops, that's what I meant. I need to mount /dev/ad0s1g to /mnt or whatever mountpoint I will use. : How sure are you that your old /usr was in partition /dev/ad0s1g? : Is it possible you are looking in the wrong place? That's what I see when I 'cat /mnt/etc/fstab' with my old drive / mounted on /mnt. : I have not had to use the fixit disks so I am not sure of what all : is included, but I would be surprised if there is no MAKEDEV script : if it is for FreeBSD 4.xxx or older version. In 4.xxx and earlier, : the MAKEDEV script is in /dev. You need to cd to /dev and then : run './MAKEDEV ad0'.NOTE, the './' is necessary because MAKEDEV : will not be in your path. I'll look again, but I only saw a few devices listed, and no script. : Try doing : : cd / : mount /dev/ad0s1g /mnt : cd /mnt : ls I'll try tonight, but I think it complains that ad0s1g doesn't exist. jm -- My other computer is your Windows box. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
