backup from usb

[wizard3141]

i have freebsd in a virtualbox and when i boot off the install cd I cant see the virtualbox drive. want to practice backups my way. how do i mount ada0p2?? or whatever.
in windows and linux this is a non-problem they are visible. this is weird

 

[T-Daemon]

Assuming the FreeBSD vbox drive is attached to one of the same VM's storage controllers as the installer cd, the drive should be visible.

What does gpart show list?

From the installer cd configure network interface, send command output to termbin.com, go to URL, copy&paste output in next posting:

Example (ada0 = FreeBSD vbox drive, ada1 = installer image):

dhclient em0
gpart show ada0 ada1 | nc termbin.com 9999

=>      40  29360048  ada0  GPT  (14G)
        40    532480     1  efi  (260M)
    532520      1024     2  freebsd-boot  (512K)
    533544       984        - free -  (492K)
    534528   2097152     3  freebsd-swap  (1.0G)
   2631680   9949184     4  freebsd-zfs  (4.7G)
  12580864   8388608     5  freebsd-ufs  (4.0G)
  20969472   8390616     6  freebsd-zfs  (4.0G)

=>      1  3267368  ada1  MBR  (1.6G)
        1    66584     1  efi  (33M)
    66585  3200784     2  freebsd  [active]  (1.5G)

 

[ralphbsz]

in windows and linux this is a non-problem they are visible.

What do you mean by "visible"? Did you try to mount them in FreeBSD? I suspect that what you are saying is that your file system has not been mounted, but that the raw devices are present.

how do i mount ada0p2?? or whatever.

With a mount command. See handbook and man pages.