how to mount an already freebsd paritioned external usb drive onto a new freebsd install

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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On 12/31/06, Steve <stevedigitalbluesky.net>
wrote:
> 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.

Assuming the drive you want to mount is /dev/da0, you
should first determine what slices and partitions it
has. It's very easy, just "ls /dev/da0*" for that.
Let's
pretend you see something like this:

/dev/da0
/dev/da0s1
/dev/da0s1a
/dev/da0s1b
/dev/da0s1c
/dev/da0s1d
/dev/da0s1e

It might be a lot simpler or a lot more complicated. This
exact result means you have one slice (s1) and several
partitions (a-e). "b" is a swap partition,
"c" represents
the whole slice, you only have to mount "a",
"d" and "e".

mkdir -p /mnt/a /mnt/d /mnt/e
mount /dev/da0s1a /mnt/a
mount /dev/da0s1d /mnt/d
mount /dev/da0s1e /mnt/e

Use "mount -r" instead of just "mount"
to make them read-
only (for safety).

Good luck!
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> 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 ... 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 ...

Depending on how you plan to extract the data, you may not
need
to mount it at all.  dump(8) will open and read the special
file
(/dev/whatever) directly.
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