Weird mount problem

[Bob Nielsen]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 06:27:18AM +0000, Sean Miller wrote:
> Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran wrote:
> 
> >>One thing you haven't told us is the mount command you are trying to 
> >>use...
> >>
> >>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.
> >>   
> >>
> >
> > Well, I don't understand what you mean by this! I am able to mount 
> > partitions
> >like that. What is exactly meant by "directory too high"?
> > 
> >
> What I meant is that /mnt is generally the directory in which you store 
> your mountpoints, not the mountpoint itself..
> 
> ie.
> 
> mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/volume2
> 
> ...rather than...
> 
> mount /dev/hda2 /mnt
> 
> As I said, though, if you post what command you are typing in order to 
> get the "in use" error then it may become clearer wherein lies your problem,

Actually I didn't have anything under /mnt, but it would work as a mount
point in any case.  What I typed was 'sudo mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb2
/mnt', and the error message was 'mount: /dev/hdb2 already mounted or
/mnt busy'.  As I said later in another message it works if I use the
ubuntu 2.6.8.1 kernel, but I get that error when I use the Win4Lin
2.6.8.1 kernel, which leads me to believe that the kernel is somehow
related to this error, but I have no idea how or why.

Bob