Mount an unknown drive

[Joshua Lewis]

   I got some sleep and thought about it some more and was wondering if
   it is possible that FreeSBIE (Running FreeBSD 5.3) simply can't read
   my drive that was formated durring an install of 6.0. Or has it not
   changed enough to cause that problem?

   There is a:



   /dev/ad0s1a

   /dev/ad0s1b

   /dev/ad0s1c

   /dev/ad0s1d

   /dev/ad0s1e

   /dev/ad0s1f

   I treid to mount all of those last night.



   mount /dev/ad0s1f /mnt



   I also tried



   mount -t ufs /dev/ad0s1f /mnt

   Same results every time. The device is busy.
   Sincerely,
   Joshua Lewis

     -------- Original Message --------
     Subject: Re: Mount an unknown drive
     From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org>
     Date: Tue, July 25, 2006 10:22 am
     To: Joshua Lewis <joshua.lewis at familyfunzone.net>
     Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
     Joshua Lewis <joshua.lewis at familyfunzone.net> writes:
     >    I have a server that has been inoperative for the last few
     months
     >    (FreeBSD 6.0). I decided to turn on the system and it goes
     right to a
     >    boot prompt. So I downloaded FreeSBIE and am trying to mount
     the old
     >    drive to see if there is any data on the drive worth saving.
     When I
     >    try to mount /dev/ad0s1f /mnt I get a device busy message. Am
     I even
     >    trying to mount the correct slice. I have tried s1a - s1f.
     >
     >
     >
     >    Is it possible it was already mounted and that is why it says
     it is
     >    busy. There is nothing in dmesg that shows asd0*.
     Look in /dev for ad*.