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

[Dave Peters]

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?

Thanks.

-Dave


--- 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.
> 
> -dsr-
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