Weird mount problem

[Bob Nielsen]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 11:03:37AM +1300, Christoph Georgi wrote:
> Maybe try
> 
> $ ls -L /dev | grep hd
> 
> to see whether the hdds are availible or not, if you haven't done so 
> before. Maybe some permissions in the /dev folder are crooked?! Another 
> thing that does not become clear from your command: are you sudoing the 
> mount command?
> 
> You could also try and mount you drives in the single user mode first, 
> as there really shouldn't be anything making the /mnt dir busy..

Switching to single-user mode with telinit didn't work, but booting into 
it (recovery mode) allowed me to mount that partition.  This is 
really strange!  

Bob

> 
> Just another few trivial ideas..
> 
> .christoph
> 
> Bob Nielsen wrote:
> >On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 01:18:43PM -0500, Ron Peterson wrote:
> >
> >>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
> >
> >
> >Neither of these commands report any results.   I am not a newbie (using 
> >Linux for >10 years), but I have never seen anything like this before.
> >
> >Bob
> >
> >
> 
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