How to add a disk to a new system without losing the data on it?

Vincent Zee basics at zenzee.cistron.nl
Fri Sep 12 12:14:54 PDT 2003


On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 21:14:46 +0200, Vincent Zee wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 15:06:37 -0400, Kliment Andreev wrote:
>>>   Hello,
>>>   How do I add a disk containing data to a new system without erasing
>>>   that data.
>>  
>>  Check dmesg output to see the device name. Then try to mount that 
>> hard disk.
>>  If everything went fine, you might want to mount that HDD on every boot so
>>  check
>>  /etc/fstab.
> 
Hi,
 
In the dmesg it comes up as ad5 but when I mount it, it can't find the 
device.
 
mount ad5 /music2
mount: ad5: No such file or directory
 
/\
Vincent
 


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