On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Michael Richardson wrote:
> I have a disk that I have moved from a Linux box to a NetBSD box.
> It has about 16 partitions on it. There is one, that I wouldn't
> mind retrieving data from before I wipe the disk. It is not
> among the first partitions, so "disklabel wd1" does not see it.

Try mbrlabel(8) with the "-w" flag (to update the in-core label)
but without the "-r" flag (to not update the on-disk label).

--apb (Alan Barrett)