how to mount an already freebsd paritioned external usb drive
onto a new freebsd install
Steve
steve at digitalbluesky.net
Sat Dec 30 13:37:06 PST 2006
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.
Steve Bopple
www.digitalbluesky.net
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