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

[Michael R. Head]

On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 13:44 +0100, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Michael R. Head wrote:
> > On my desktop machine (which is running 7.10, but has been upgraded
> > along the way with devel releases), I've taken to keeping /home on a
> > separate partition (/dev/hda3) so I can take my data with me if I
> > desire to do a clean install. This has worked well for several years
> > now.
> >
> > Until today!
> >
> > I booted into Ubuntu for the first time in a while (usually I just use
> > my laptop), but I got some errors when logging in from gdm, so I logged
> > in with a terminal and got this dreaded error:
> >
> > I found that /dev/hda3 was not mounted to /home
> > So I attempted to mount it manually:
> > burner at firestorm:/$ sudo mount /dev/hda3 /home/
> > mount: /dev/hda3 already mounted or /home/ busy
> 
> I think I have seen a similar problem some time ago in another thread 
> (maybe on another list). AFAIR the problem was that "/home" was mounted 
> too early because the position of the "/home" entry in /etc/fstab was 
> before the entry for "/".

Interesting... But I have it set below '/' and I have its 'pass' field
set to '2', so it should be mounted after '/'.

But even if that were the case, I _should_ be able to mount the drive
manually, right?

> Nils
> 
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Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
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