Can't mount /dev/hda3, now I'm '/home'less!

[Seth Hasani]

On Dec 19, 2007 5:36 PM, Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org> wrote:

> I found that /dev/hda3 was not mounted to /home
> burner at firestorm:/$ mount |grep home
> burner at firestorm:/$ mount |grep hda3
>
> So I attempted to mount it manually:
> burner at firestorm:/$ sudo mount /dev/hda3 /home/
> mount: /dev/hda3 already mounted or /home/ busy
>
> No luck. What's weird here is that /dev/hda3 was not mounted, and if I
> check for open files on /home, it's clear:
> burner at firestorm:/$ sudo lsof |grep home
> burner at firestorm:/$
>
> What's more, I can't mount /dev/hda3 anywhere!
>
> burner at firestorm:/$ sudo mkdir /test-mount
> burner at firestorm:/$ sudo mount /dev/hda3 /test-mount/
> mount: /dev/hda3 already mounted or /test-mount/ busy
>
> /dev/hda3 is reiserfs, and I have done a "sudo fsck /dev/hda3".
> Everything looked fine when I did that.
>
>
> Anyone got a suggestion?

Any hardware changes? Added another drive or an IDE card maybe? Have
you tried mounting via UUID? This mounts the partition you're
intending explicitly even if the devfs path (/dev/hd# or /dev/sd#)
changes. If that's the case, its possible /dev/hda3 is indeed an empty
partition. There were some changes to pata drivers a while back, Im
not sure if this is your problem but it could have some relevance.

Seth