Am 20.12.2022 um 05:01 schrieb bruce <badouglas(a)gmail.com>:
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.