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Re: unable to mount 2nd FAT16 partition



On Monday 26 March 2001 02:52, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> Interesting - that's of course not what I was referring to, I was
> asking whether he had two different partitions he was trying to
> mount at the /mnt mountpoint. But what you did doesn't work on my
> machine:
>
> nujoma:/mnt# mount
> /dev/hdb3 on / type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro,errors=remount-ro)
> proc on /proc type proc (rw)
> devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
> /dev/hdd1 on /src2 type vfat (rw,umask=0000)
> /dev/hdb1 on /rosa type vfat (rw,umask=0000)
> /dev/hdc1 on /theodor type vfat (rw,umask=0000)
> /dev/hdd3 on /share type ext2 (rw)
> nujoma:/mnt# mount /dev/hdb3 /mnt/tmp
> mount: /dev/hdb3 already mounted or /mnt/tmp busy
> mount: according to mtab, /dev/hdb3 is mounted on /
>
> nujoma:/mnt# uname -a
> Linux nujoma 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown

Well, mine's --

debian:~$ linuxinfo
Linux debian 2.4.1 #1 Wed Feb 28 19:28:03 PHT 2001
One AMD K6-2 (3DNow) 501MHz processor, 999.42 total bogomips, 127M RAM
System library 2.2.2

So I suspect that "double"-mounting is a 2.4 series "feature" in 
search of a problem.

> On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, csj wrote:
> > On Sunday 25 March 2001 23:57, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> > > Forgive me if this is obvious, but is your first one mounted on
> > > /mnt? You can of course have only one filesystem mounted at a
> > > given mountpoint.
> >
> > I can do the following:
> >
> > debian:/home/penguin# mount /dev/hda10 /mnt/bogus/
> > debian:/home/penguin# mount /dev/hda10 /mnt/loop/
> > debian:/home/penguin# df -h
> > Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/hda19            2.7G  1.9G  707M  74% /
> > /dev/hda15            4.8G  4.2G  372M  93% /web
> > /dev/hda14            980M  701M  229M  76% /mirror
> > /dev/hda13            980M  683M  247M  74% /src-mirror
> > /dev/hda10            3.8G  2.4G  1.2G  65% /mnt/bogus
> > /dev/hda10            3.8G  2.4G  1.2G  65% /mnt/loop
> >
> > Is this a bug or what?



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