Where is configuration file?

[John M. Długosz]

My earlier post seems to have not made it through the forum software update.
If I reinstall freeNAS on a new USB drive, how can I find and extract the existing file from the old USB drive, given that it's not able to boot? If I put the stick onto a PC, Mac, or Linux machine, is the file system readable somehow, and what files need to be transplanted?

 

[gpsguy]

My reply disappeared too..

Put this into a Google search:

site:forums.freenas.org FreeNAS-v1.db Dusan

Look at the Nov 30, 2013 message.


Sent from my phone

 

[John M. Długosz]

This one: http://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/usb-with-freenas-died-is-all-lost.16567/#post-85266

Thanks! data directory, 4th partition.
Since nothing more was said, I'm supposing that the file system is something other computers can handle.

 

[gpsguy]

The flash (USB) drive is formatted UFS. You'd need an OS that could read it. Besides FreeNAS/FreeBSD another user was able to access it with Ubuntu about a week ago.

 

[John M. Długosz]

That's good to know. I also see that the install ISO has a menu item for "shell" so I can copy files booting from that, I suppose.

Since MiniTool Partition Wizard didn't even know what kind of partition it was ("other"), I just copied the entire drive, and then used the fresh one as an upgrade target. Fortunately, the db files seemed to be just fine.

It's odd that the loader.conf file was messed up — that's not normally written to, right?