salvaging hard drive contents

[jeffry killen]

> Hello;
> I have a hard drive that contains the /var file system in a system that
> will not boot.
> In single user mode I can mount  /var.
>
> I want to take this disk and put it in another FreeBSD system and
> try to copy the files I need off of it to a safe place.
>
> The system I will plug it into will also have a separate disk with
> /var.
>
> Is there going to be a conflict with the labels and how would I
> best go about this?

response to above query-------------------

There will be no conflict.  All the magic as to 'wher to mout what' is 
in
the /etc/fstab file.  because it doesn't know about the disk you're 
adding,
ther won'tbe any conflicts. Simply use the long form of mount(1), to 
wit:
"mount devicename mountpoint", and mount it on any convenient location,
say '/mnt'.
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Now I have the hard disk I want to recover mounted but please for give 
me
for being in the learning phase, but how to I cd on to this drive?

I mounted it using the suggested 'mount -r (in this case ad12s1d) /var'
now how do I actually read it?
I tried cd ad12s1d/var and I got the 'file does not exist' response.
If I do
cd /;  ls -la
I do not see an added entry.

Thanks for suggestions, info, etc
Jeff K