Can't mount /dev/hda3, now I'm '/home'less!

[Nils Kassube]

Michael R. Head wrote:
> On my desktop machine (which is running 7.10, but has been upgraded
> along the way with devel releases), I've taken to keeping /home on a
> separate partition (/dev/hda3) so I can take my data with me if I
> desire to do a clean install. This has worked well for several years
> now.
>
> Until today!
>
> I booted into Ubuntu for the first time in a while (usually I just use
> my laptop), but I got some errors when logging in from gdm, so I logged
> in with a terminal and got this dreaded error:
>
> I found that /dev/hda3 was not mounted to /home
> So I attempted to mount it manually:
> burner at firestorm:/$ sudo mount /dev/hda3 /home/
> mount: /dev/hda3 already mounted or /home/ busy

I think I have seen a similar problem some time ago in another thread 
(maybe on another list). AFAIR the problem was that "/home" was mounted 
too early because the position of the "/home" entry in /etc/fstab was 
before the entry for "/".


Nils