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

[Vincent Zee]

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 15:36:34 -0400 (EDT), Steve Bertrand wrote:
>>  just the one partition.
>>  I tried: /dev/ad5  /dev/ad5s1  /dev/ad5s1a  with the same response
>>  "incorrect super block"
> 
> What is the output from:
> 
> # disklabel -r ad5

disklabel -r ad5
# /dev/ad5c:
type: ESDI
disk: ad5s1
label: 
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 255
sectors/cylinder: 16065
cylinders: 14945
sectors/unit: 240107427
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0           # milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0  # milliseconds
drivedata: 0 

8 partitions:
#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
  c: 240107427        0    unused        0     0        # (Cyl.    0 - 
14945*)
  d: 240107427        0    4.2BSD     2048 16384 28552  # (Cyl.    0 - 
14945*)
super block size 0

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Vincent