Weird mount problem

[Bob Nielsen]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 11:39:08PM -0800, Vram wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 22:56 -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 06:27:18AM +0000, Sean Miller wrote:
> > > Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran wrote:
> > > 
> > > >>One thing you haven't told us is the mount command you are trying to 
> > > >>use...
> > > >>
> > > >>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.
> > > >>   
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > > Well, I don't understand what you mean by this! I am able to mount 
> > > > partitions
> > > >like that. What is exactly meant by "directory too high"?
> > > > 
> > > >
> > > What I meant is that /mnt is generally the directory in which you store 
> > > your mountpoints, not the mountpoint itself..
> > > 
> > > ie.
> > > 
> > > mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/volume2
> > > 
> > > ...rather than...
> > > 
> > > mount /dev/hda2 /mnt
> > > 
> > > As I said, though, if you post what command you are typing in order to 
> > > get the "in use" error then it may become clearer wherein lies your problem,
> > 
> > Actually I didn't have anything under /mnt, but it would work as a mount
> > point in any case.  What I typed was 'sudo mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb2
> > /mnt', and the error message was 'mount: /dev/hdb2 already mounted or
> > /mnt busy'.  As I said later in another message it works if I use the
> > ubuntu 2.6.8.1 kernel, but I get that error when I use the Win4Lin
> > 2.6.8.1 kernel, which leads me to believe that the kernel is somehow
> > related to this error, but I have no idea how or why.
> > 
> > Bob
> > 
> 
> 
> Could you post the output from
> 
> mount
> 

$ mount
/dev/hda2 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/hda3 on /home type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hda5 on /usr/local type ext3 (rw)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)

Any ideas welcome!

Bob