Weird mount problem

[Bob Nielsen]

On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 07:51:38AM +0000, Sean Miller wrote:
> rpowersau at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> >Why hdb2? Have you tried hdb0, hdb1, ...?
> > 
> >
> One thing you haven't told us is the mount command you are trying to use...

mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb2 /mnt

> 
> If it's mount /dev/hda2 /mnt it is not going to work, because /mnt is 
> not a mountpoint; it is a directory too high.

Actually it is a mount point, since there were no directories or files 
below that point.

> 
> Try...
> 
> mkdir /mnt/newdrive
> mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/newdrive
> 
> Does that work?


I still get the same error

There is a Win 98SE (fat32) partition at /dev/hdb1 and I get the same 
error when trying to mount it:

$ sudo mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt
mount: /dev/hdb1 already mounted or /mnt busy

I thought it might be a problem with the IDE controller, but if I boot 
with a Rescue CD or Knoppix the drive mounts as expected.

Bob