Weird mount problem

[rpowersau at gmail.com]

Why hdb2? Have you tried hdb0, hdb1, ...?

Have you tried creating your own mnt, mkdir ~/mnt, then mounting it
there? That would eliminate the question of /mnt being busy.

I assume the drive is mounted as a slave on the same channel as hda?

Does the drive power up? Can you see any lights or hear it spinning.

Sorry, I know a lot of these things are pretty obvious but I'm just
trying to cover everything I can think of.  :)


On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 21:50:04 -0800, Bob Nielsen <nielsen at oz.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 11:18:46AM +0800, rpowersau at gmail.com wrote:
> > On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 18:49:58 -0800, Bob Nielsen <nielsen at oz.net> wrote:
> > > I added a second hard drive which already has a vfat and two ext3
> > > partitions.  When I try to mount one of these, I get an error message:
> > >
> > > mount: /dev/hdb2 already mounted or /mnt busy
> > >
> > > The device is not mounted and there is nothing else mounted to /mnt.  Is
> > > there something else which would cause this error message?  Fdisk
> > > recognizes the disk and correctly displays its partitions.
> >
> > What's the output of jujst typing mount?
> >
> > What does your /etc/fstab look like?
> >
> 
> mount gives:
> 
> /dev/hda2 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
> proc on /proc type proc (rw)
> sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
> devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
> tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
> /dev/hda3 on /home type ext3 (rw)
> /dev/hda5 on /usr/local type ext3 (rw)
> usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
> 
> and /etc/fstab says:
> 
> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
> /dev/hda2       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0    1
> /dev/hda3       /home           ext3    defaults        0       2
> /dev/hda5       /usr/local      ext3    defaults        0       2
> /dev/hda7       none            swap    sw              0       0
> /dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0
> /dev/hdd        /media/cdrom1   udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0
> /dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
> /dev/sda1        /media/usb0    vfat    user,rw,umask=000     0     0/
> 
> As you can see there is no mention of either /mnt or /dev/hdb2.
> 
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Regards,
Russ