Re: old system -centos 6 -- trying to fix a disk/partition/vol issue

[bruce]

And yeaHi Peter.

Thanks for the reply.

It appears that the issue is as simple as -- the LABEL of the
partition from gparted is "TestDir' - not /media/TestDir <<
one I changed the line in the fstab..
> > LABEL=TestDir /media/TestDir 
and then did a mount -a

The partition/data is viewable..

At some point, I'll do a reboot to see if the box reboots again.

Thanks!


On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 3:33 AM Peter Boy <pboy(a)uni-bremen.de&gt; wrote:
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>
>
> > Am 20.12.2022 um 05:01 schrieb bruce <badouglas(a)gmail.com&gt;:
> >
> > Hi.
> >
> > I know. centos6 is dead/buried/reincarnated.
> >
> > However, I have a very old box that I haven't touched in a bit.
> >
> > I had created a /media/TestDir using part of the drive. As I recall,
> > it had been working. However, when I turned it on earlier, something
> > happened, (i think the cat hit the cord!). I rebooted and got a msg
> > about the /media/foo not being able to resolve and therefore not boot.
> >
> > I did a quick comment out of the offending line in the fstab. Rebot
> > was successful.
> >
> > Now, I'm wondering how to get the fstab /media/foo back with the
> > underlying files. I assume the files are still on the "drive". As a
> > matter of fact, just fired up gparted, and it shows the partition
> > /dev/sda4 as et4 with a Label of "TestDir".
> >
> > This was the line in the /etc/fstab file
> > ##LABEL=/media/TestDir /media/TestDir      ext4    defaults        1 2
>
> I’m wondering, where you found „et4“. I guess in the partition table.
>
> As a Server guy I would use a CLI tool and at first check the disk with fdisk. And
than I would try to manually mount with the *device name*).
>
> And in case of anomalies of the partition table for sda4 - as a (very) last resort -
delete that partition (noting start and end sectors beforehand) and then create a new
partition with exactly the same start and end sectors and partition type. But that is not
for the faint-hearted.
>
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