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

[Vincent Zee]

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 15:21:04 -0400 (EDT), Steve Bertrand wrote:
>>  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
> 
> How many partitions were on the old drive?
> 
> You might want to try
> 
> # mount /dev/ad5s1x /music2
> 
> (where x == a,c,e,f or g, depending on the number of partitions you have
> on the disk)
> 
> Steve

Hi Steve,

just the one partition.
I tried: /dev/ad5  /dev/ad5s1  /dev/ad5s1a  with the same response 
"incorrect super block"

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Vincent