How to mount a FreeBSD-5.1 partition from FreeBSD-4.9

[Nelis Lamprecht]

On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 14:26, Juan Rodriguez Hervella wrote:
> Hello, please send the reply to myself cause Im not 
> subscribe to the list
> 
> I've got a FreeBSD-5.1 installation in /dev/ad0s3,
> but I usually run FreeBSD-4.9 from /dev/ad0s2.
> 
> When I run:
> 
> root at cimborrio:/usr/home/jrh# mount /dev/ad0s3 /mnt/freebsd5.1
> (ERROR)mount: /dev/ad0s3 on /mnt/freebsd5.1: incorrect super block
> 
> root at cimborrio:/usr/home/jrh# mount /dev/ad0s3a /mnt/freebsd5.1
> (ERROR)mount: /dev/ad0s3a: No such file or directory

try creating the device files first:

sh /dev/MAKEDEV ad0s3

then mount -t ufs /dev/ad0s3a /mnt/freebsd5.1 ..for access to root or
mount -t ufs /dev/ad0s3f /mnt/freebsd5.1 ..for access to /usr

you may or may not need to specify the type of file system as above.

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Nelis Lamprecht
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