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When I want to mount my fat32 filesystem on my primery slave hard drive
I get the following message: # mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/fat32/ mount: /dev/hdb1 already mounted or /mnt/fat32/ busy Of course I entered this command from a different directory than /mnt/fat32 so the directory shouldn't be busy. On the other hand this hard drive is not mounted at all to anywhere else. The /etc/fstab includes neither this partition. Or if I added the proper line for this partition into the /etc/fstab the drive was not mounted after boot-up. The /mnt/fat32 is not mount point for any other partition or device so I don't try to mount my /dev/hdb1 partition to a previously mounted one. If I check the partitions with fdisk the /dev/hdb1 seemes to be OK. I can even run fsck on /dev/hdb1 and it works fine. I'm using debian unstable dist. with 2.6.5 kernel. I also tried it with another vfat filesystem but I got the same error and the same result  Any suggestion? http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/mount-problem-device-already-mounted-or-mount-point-busy-251293/ I got the solution for my problem. 1. The mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/fat32 didn't work out. 2. Nor was the /mnt/fat32 locked (lsof and fuser showed that the partition and the mount point are not in use). The final intuition: I had some strange errors when I booted: "kernel: device-mapper: dm-linear: Device lookup failed kernel: device-mapper: error adding target to table" So after some seeking it turned out that completely removing the evms package solves the problem: no more error massage as above in kern.log and mounting can be done without sweat!  Thank you guys for helping me! Your suggestions helped me a lot! |
