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

[Michael R. Head]

On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 01:32 +1100, Owen Townend wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 07:12 -0500, Michael R. Head wrote:
> > > Seth
> > > 
> 
> Hey,
>   One thing you can try is using UUID lines in fstab instead of /dev
> addresses. Use vol_id to find the UUID and then the fstab line looks
> something like this:
> 
> # Home partition, was /dev/hda2
> UUID=aadbde44-75cb-4fae-3dad-cf2a42d0be3d /home               ext3
> defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1

Well, if the lines in fstab were working, I wouldn't be in this mess,
now would I!

So yeah, the UUID lines in fstab are in place and they match correctly
in according to /dev/disk/by-uuid/<UUID>

So no luck.

>   This should make it impervious to partitions moving around /dev as
> happens on occasion when adding new drives or fiddling in BIOS.

Even so, "sudo mount /dev/<blah> /some/new/mount/point" really ought to
be working. And it ought not to be telling me that /dev/<blah> is
already mounted or that /some/new/mount/point is busy, when clearly
neither of these are the case.

> cheers,
> Owen.
> 
> 
-- 
Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
http://picasaweb.google.com/demiri.head.wedding
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