Re: mount: /dev/ad0s1 : No such device

["William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>]

On 11/12/12 05:58, Tom H wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 6:01 AM, Fredrik Jonson<fredrik@jonson.org>  wrote:
> > William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> > >   .... I am brand new to Debian [...] [I have a box that] has 2 other drives
> > >   on it, 1 IDE 500 GB Seagate, 1 SATA 500 GB WD. Those are both use ext3
> > >   filesystem, left over from the CentOS 5.7 that I was running on that box
> > >   before the root drive died. I tried to mount those drives as ext3 drives&  I
> > >   get the following:
> > >
> > >   # mount -t ext3    /dev/ad0s1  /mnt
> > >   mount: /dev/ad0s1: No such device
> > Are you sure that /dev/ad0s1 is your file system? I'd expect a PATA drive to
> > show up named /dev/hda or /dev/hdb and partitions named /dev/hda1 etc. Likewise
> > SATA drives are normally named /dev/sda with partitions named /dev/sda1 etc.
> >
> > Are you running debian-kfreebsd?
> >
> > What does dmesg say about the disks? What about 'cfdisk -P s /dev/ad0'?
> With a Linux kernel, BSD slices are sd partitions.


I am indeed running debian-kfreeBSD, I guess that is why the devices are 
called /dev/ad<n> ....


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