Weird mount problem

[Vram]

On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 22:56 -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> 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
> 


Could you post the output from

mount

TIA

Vram

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