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

[NoOp]

On 12/20/2007 02:53 PM, Michael R. Head wrote:

> 
> Except that it's not actually mounted (according to the kernel)!
> 
> Also, I have now commented /home out of /etc/fstab, rebooted, and I
> still cannot mount /dev/hda3 anywhere.
> 
> 
> burner at firestorm:/$ grep hda /proc/mounts 
> burner at firestorm:/$ grep home /proc/mounts 
> burner at firestorm:/$ sudo umount /home
> umount: /home: not mounted
> burner at firestorm:/$ sudo umount /dev/hda3
> umount: /dev/hda3: not mounted
> burner at firestorm:/$ sudo mount /dev/hda3 /home
> mount: /dev/hda3 already mounted or /home busy
> burner at firestorm:/$ sudo mkdir /tmp/hda3
> burner at firestorm:/$ sudo mount /dev/hda3 /tmp/hda3
> mount: /dev/hda3 already mounted or /tmp/hda3 busy
> 
> I'm still in WTF mode here...
> 

I seem to recall that I had a similar problem on the computer that I
just restored whereby I mounted home on a second hard drive (ext3) just
recently. I've donated the computer and don't have access to it right
now, but I did keep a copy of the fstab. Not sure if this will help, but
here is what I had:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=<myuuid> /               ext3    defaults,erro$
# /dev/sda5
<myuuid> none            swap    sw           $
/dev/scd0       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0       0
/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto,exec 0       0
/dev/sdb1       /home   ext3    defaults 0      0

/dev/sdb1 was where I put it. I did not attempt o use a uuid, but
instead just used sdb1. I also seem to recall that I had to change the
ownership of /home (sudo chown user:user). This thread:

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/131303
[Move Home to 2nd drive]