Weird mount problem

[Ron Peterson]

On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 08:24:04AM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 07:51:38AM +0000, Sean Miller wrote:
> > rpowersau at gmail.com wrote:
> > 
> > >Why hdb2? Have you tried hdb0, hdb1, ...?
> > > 
> > >
> > One thing you haven't told us is the mount command you are trying to use...
> 
> mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb2 /mnt
> 
> > 
> > If it's mount /dev/hda2 /mnt it is not going to work, because /mnt is 
> > not a mountpoint; it is a directory too high.
> 
> Actually it is a mount point, since there were no directories or files 
> below that point.

Anyplace is a mount point, the mount will just hide anything beneath it.

> There is a Win 98SE (fat32) partition at /dev/hdb1 and I get the same 
> error when trying to mount it:
> 
> $ sudo mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt
> mount: /dev/hdb1 already mounted or /mnt busy

Make sure you're not cd'd into the directory somewhere..

Have you tried using fuser or lsof to see what processes may be using
the directory?  e.g.

fuser /mnt
lsof +D /mnt

-- 
Ron Peterson
Network & Systems Manager
Mount Holyoke College
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso