Re: mount problems

[Bob Hilliard <hilliard@flinet.com>]

"E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <tgakem@sg10.chem.tue.nl> writes:
> > 
> > Thanks to all.  However this problem is not solved:
> > 
> >      /rex is an empty directory created as a mount point.
> > 
> >      "sudo fuser /rex" and "sudo fuser /rex"  return nothing.
> > 
> >      There is no /dev/rex
> 
> 
> But in a previous post you wrote (if I got the quoting right):
> 
> >      sudo mount /dev/hda4 or sudo mount /dev/rex
> > 
> > I get the response mount: /dev/hda4 already mounted or /rex busy.
> > However, df, mount and /mtab all show that /dev/hda4 is not mounted.
> 
> which implies you were trying to mount something on /dev/rex.  What
> exactly is there in your /etc/fstab file?  What does fdisk -l say?


     OOPS! - my fingers weren't following my brain!  It should have been:
          sudo mount /dev/hda4 or sudo mount /rex

     I made essentially the same error in my latest response (quoted
above).  I'm getting careless in cut and pasting!

      "sudo fuser /rex" and "sudo fuser /rex"  return nothing.
should be:
      "sudo fuser /rex" and "sudo fuser /hda4"  return nothing. 

     The output of cat /etc/fstab and sudo fdisk -l are attached.
fdisk emits a few errors, which may be related to the problem.  I have
tried writing the partition table back to disk, but the same error
invalid flag message is repeated in the next invocation of fdisk.

Thanks,

Bob
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cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file sys> <mnt point><type>  <options>   <dump>  <pass>
proc             /proc   proc     defaults    0       0
/dev/hda3        /       ext2     defaults    0       1
/dev/hda7        none    swap     sw          0       0
/dev/hda6        /local  ext2     defaults    0       2
/dev/hda4        /rex    ext2     defaults,noauto    0       2
/dev/hdb         /cd     iso9660  ro,user,noauto
/dev/hda1        /dos/c   msdos   defaults,conv=a,uid=1000,gid=1000
/dev/hdc1        /dos/d   msdos   defaults,conv=a,uid=1000,gid=1000
/dev/fd0         /fda     msdos   user,noauto,uid=1000
/dev/fd1         /fdb     msdos   user,noauto,uid=1000
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sudo fdisk -l
Cannot stat() /var
check_timestamp: mkdir: No such file or directory

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Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 1023 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot   Begin    Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *        1        1      257   518080+   6  DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hda2          258      258      326   139104    5  Extended
/dev/hda3          327      327      626   604800   83  Linux native
/dev/hda4          627      627     1023   800352   83  Linux native
/dev/hda5          258      258      260     6016+  83  Linux native
/dev/hda6   Warning: invalid flag 0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite)
       261      261      310   100768+  83  Linux native
/dev/hda7          311      311      326    32224+  82  Linux swap

Disk /dev/hdb: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 1023 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot   Begin    Start      End   Blocks   Id  System

Disk /dev/hdc: 15 heads, 34 sectors, 1001 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 510 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot   Begin    Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdc1            1        1      804   205003    6  DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hdc2          805      805      976    43860   83  Linux native
/dev/hdc4          977      977     1001     6375   83  Linux native