5.3 prob reading 4.11 hdd

Scot Hetzel swhetzel at gmail.com
Mon Jan 24 08:43:06 PST 2005


On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 22:41:34 +1000, Warren
<shinjii at virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com> wrote:
> I recently took my primary hdd running FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE out of my main
> machine leaving my 2ndry hdd in the machine and installing FreeBSD5.3-STABLE
> on it to use as the new primary.  When everything was done and i plugged in
> the 2nd hdd that originally had 4.11-STABLE on it, i was unable to find the
> individual partitions/slices on there to mount so i could access all the old
> data i had.  I have a basic understanding of FreeBSD but am still not quite
> proficent when it comes to this sort of thing.  Fdisk only shows 1 partition
> so does disklabel. Below is the disklabel output
> of the drive im wanting to get all the data from...
> 
> #ad1s1
> 8 partitions:
> #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
>  c: 234436482        0    unused        0     0         # "raw" part, don't
> edit
>  e: 234436482        0    4.2BSD     2048 16384    89
> 
Do you have any files on ad1s1e?

mount /dev/ad1s1e /mnt
ls -lR /mnt

Scot


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