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

[Michael R. Head]

On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 06:33 -0500, Seth Hasani wrote:
> 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? 

Nope... well, I have a new monitor attached to it.

> 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.

I can successfully mount the partition when I boot with a 7.10 live CD.
It's just the installed Ubuntu image that's giving me trouble.

> Seth
> 
-- 
Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
http://picasaweb.google.com/demiri.head.wedding
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature
Size: 3259 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/attachments/20071220/3fbd01be/attachment.bin>