On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 02:45:28PM +0900, David Cournapeau wrote:
> It seems like my partition table is messed up, and I am not able to
> mount all my partitions. For example, mount refuse to mount /dev/hda12
> on any directory: when I do a mount -r /dev/hda12 /mnt/tmp, mount tells
> me that hda12 is already mounted, or that /mnt/tmp is busy. The
> partition is not mounted for sure, and I tried several other tempory
> locations, without any success. The "funny" part is that a fsck.ext3
> /dev/hda12 doesn't give me any error when I check the filesystem (which
> let me some hope about the possible recovery).
One thing no one else mentioned that you might want to check is that
/etc/mtab is up-to-date (it's a plain text file that you can cat). If
there is an entry in there for a partition that isn't mounted, the mount
command still won't let you mount it.
Chuck
Received on Tue Feb 1 16:15:05 2005
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