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sda4 was not mount, how to force remount missing drive - please help



On Thursday 19 July 2007 09:09:41 am Dave Peters wrote:
> I try this
> #mkdir /mnt/sda4
> # mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/sda4
> and
> # mount /dev/sda4 /mnt
>
> with the same error:
> mount; /dev/sda4 already mounted or /mnt busy
>
>
> Andy ideal?

Hrm... Could try creating a path outside of /mnt/ to try mounting /dev/sda4 
at, but are you sure it isn't already mounted now? What does df say now?



> --- Dan Ritter <dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 01:03:48PM -0700, Dave
> >
> > Peters wrote:
> > > hello all,
> > >
> > > I have a missing drive. It is CentOS
> > > 2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp
> > >
> > > Here is the info from fdisk -l and df -h. It shows
> >
> > all
> >
> > > sda1 to sda4 from fdisk -l, but in /etc/fstab, the
> > > sda4 was missing. How can I force to mount this
> >
> > sda4.
> >
> > > sda4 has data on it.
> >
> > Well, for right now, you say something like:
> >
> > sudo mount /dev/sda4 /mnt
> >
> > and it should be mounted at /mnt
> >
> > In the future, you edit /etc/fstab and put in an
> > appropriate
> > entry.


-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod-ajLrJawYSntWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org

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