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

[Owen Townend]

On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 15:46 -0500, Michael R. Head wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 01:32 +1100, Owen Townend wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 07:12 -0500, Michael R. Head wrote:
> > > > Seth
> > > > 
> > 
> > Hey,
> >   One thing you can try is using UUID lines in fstab instead of /dev
> > addresses. Use vol_id to find the UUID and then the fstab line looks
> > something like this:
> > 
> > # Home partition, was /dev/hda2
> > UUID=aadbde44-75cb-4fae-3dad-cf2a42d0be3d /home               ext3
> > defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
> 
> Well, if the lines in fstab were working, I wouldn't be in this mess,
> now would I!
> 
> So yeah, the UUID lines in fstab are in place and they match correctly
> in according to /dev/disk/by-uuid/<UUID>
> 
> So no luck.
> 
> >   This should make it impervious to partitions moving around /dev as
> > happens on occasion when adding new drives or fiddling in BIOS.
> 
> Even so, "sudo mount /dev/<blah> /some/new/mount/point" really ought to
> be working. And it ought not to be telling me that /dev/<blah> is
> already mounted or that /some/new/mount/point is busy, when clearly
> neither of these are the case.
> 
> > cheers,
> > Owen.
> > 
> > 

Hey,
  Have you tried booting a live-cd and mounting it from there just to
make sure it's not a completely separate issue?... hopefully not, but it
would be worth ruling out.

cheers,
Owen.