[mythtvnz] Storage drive won't mount

[criggie]

On 22/04/13 20:40, Paulgir wrote:
>
> I had a power cut here about an hour ago and when the system rebooted I
> got a message: problem mounting /var/lib/mythtv
> I have /var/lib/mythtv on a 1TB drive.And the OS on a 160 GB drive.
> The drive is ok according to the disk utility.SMART data is good ran
> benchmark sucessfully.
> sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /var/lib/mythtv gives a wrong fs error.fstab looks
> fine.
>
> Any suggestions what to do?
> Or how to temporarily revert to /var/lib mythtv on sda1?
> I tried sudo umount /var/lib/mythtv but it tells me /var/lib/mythtv is
> not mounted -of course.
> Actually I think it has reverted by itself because it is recording to
> some directory.
> Any ideas how to get my 1TB drive mounting again?

As root, try         fsck /dev/sdb1
and see if there are any errors

Then do a mount /var/lib/mythtv
and see what errors it reports.


If your mythbox is already recording something, this will get messy very 
quickly.


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