Re: Can't mount partition on slave drive

[downtime null <downtime@downtimenull.com>]

On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 21:32, Kevin Mark wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 09:26:57PM -0600, downtime null wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 21:08, Kevin Mark wrote:
> <snip>
> > Disk /dev/hdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> > 
> >    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/hdb1   *           1       19457   156288321   83  Linux
> > 
> Hi,
> so you have /dev/hdb1.
> 
> > # mount
> > /dev/hda5 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
> > proc on /proc type proc (rw)
> > sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
> > devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
> > tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
> > /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
> > /dev/hda2 on /home type ext3 (rw)
> > /dev/hda3 on /var type ext3 (rw)
> > /dev/hda6 on /tmp type ext3 (rw)
> > /dev/hda8 on /usr type ext3 (rw)
> > none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
> 
> No hdb1 here.
> 
> > 
> > # mount /dev/hdb1 /other
> > mount: /dev/hdb1 already mounted or /other busy
> 
> I think /other is the issue(as I can't think of anything else)
> try:
> mkdir /mnt/other
> mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/other
> 
> -Kev

# mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/other
mount: /dev/hdb1 already mounted or /mnt/other busy

It seems like the system thinks /dev/hdb1 is mounted, but, obviously, it
isn't. There's also this :

# fuser -c /dev/hda1
/dev/hda1:            2786
# fuser -c /dev/hdb1
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