Intermittent failure mounting /home?

[Steve Flynn]

On 12 October 2012 13:24, Rich Carreiro <rlcarr at rlcarr.com> wrote:

> fsck from util-linux 2.20.1
> /dev/xvda: clean, 65383/5690496 files, 1438641/5701632 blocks
> mountall: Disconnected from Plymouth
> fsck from util-linux 2.20.1
> fsck.ext3: Device or resource busy while trying to open /dev/xvdc
> Filesystem mounted or opened exclusively by another program?
> mountall: fsck /home [2041] terminated with status 8
> mountall: Unrecoverable fsck error: /home
> mountall: Skipping mounting /home since Plymouth is not available
>
> Any ideas what could be going on?

boot into single user mode,
umount /home, if it's mounted
run an fsck on /dev/xdc. Hopefully it comes up clean. If not, then let
it correct the errors and write to the disk

Reboot into multi-user mode.


The basic problem is that fsck wants to check the drive for errors,
but something else is using or mounting the disk when it tries to do
so. What that might be, we cannot tell from this output, but making
sure the drive with your data on it is in good health should be the
first step.

-- 
Steve

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