Re: etch: cannot mount usb hd

[Jörg Becker <news@elke-joerg.de>]

On Tuesday 18 March 2008 00:11, Bernardo Dal Seno wrote:
> Does "cat /proc/mount" produce the same result?
>
yes

> Do you see any entry that you cannot identify as a disk you know
> (beside the usual proc, sysfs...)? Maybe there is a node in /dev
> referring to sdc with another name.
>
I think this looks good, but no usb hd

rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
none /sys sysfs rw 0 0
none /proc proc rw,nodiratime 0 0
udev /dev tmpfs rw 0 0
/dev/mapper/gandalf-root / xfs rw 0 0
/dev/mapper/gandalf-root /dev/.static/dev xfs rw 0 0
tmpfs /lib/init/rw tmpfs rw,nosuid 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec 0 0
/dev/sda1 /boot xfs rw 0 0
/dev/mapper/gandalf-home /home xfs rw 0 0
/dev/mapper/gandalf-tmp /tmp xfs rw 0 0
/dev/mapper/gandalf-usr /usr xfs rw 0 0
/dev/mapper/gandalf-var /var xfs rw 0 0
/dev/mapper/gandalf-opt /opt xfs rw 0 0
/dev/mapper/gandalf-shared_data /shared_data xfs rw 0 0
binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw 0 0

>
> Can you read the disk? E.g. (probably to be done as root)
>   dd if=/dev/sdc of=/dev/null count=10
>   dd if=/dev/sdc2 of=/dev/null count=10
>
10+0 records in
10+0 records out
5120 bytes (5.1 kB) copied, 8.6e-05 seconds, 59.5 MB/s

> Can you mount it read-only (-o ro)?
mount /media/backup/:
mount: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WDC_WD30_00JB-00KFA0_0-part2 already mounted 
or /media/backup busy

sudo mount -o ro /dev/sdc2 /mnt/
mount: /dev/sdc2 already mounted or /mnt/tmp/ busy


Jörg