Hello David, Nice to hear from you again.
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 4:05 PM > From: "David Wright" <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue > Mode? > > Presumably given as root. > A definite yes because I chose to mount /dev/perfect-vg/root as a root file system in Rescue Mode. > > The error message is: > > > > mount: /media/myusb: /dev/sdb1 already mounted or mount point busy > > Type: > $ ls -l /dev/disk/by-label/ > to see what the kernel called your stick. Debian installers have LABELs. root@perfect:/# ls -l /dev/disk/by-label/ Total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jul 15 17:00 'Debian\x20testing\x20amd64\x201' --> ../../sdb1 root@perfect:/# > > > Below are the results of cat /etc/fstab > > > > <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> > > <pass> > > /dev/mapper/perfect--vg-root / ext4 errors-remount-ro > > 0 1 > > /boot/efi was on /dev/sda1 during installation > > There's a # before that line > Which line please? > > UUID=A30E-2C33 /boot/efi vfat umask=0077 0 1 > > /dev/mapper/perfect--vg-swap none swap sw 0 0 > > /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom0 udf, iso9660 user, noauto 0 0 > > /media/myusb > > That line looks spurious. If you put it there, I would remove it for > the time being. > Did you mean /media/myusb ? > When you mount a USB stick as root, you don't need > an entry in fstab, but you do need to create a mount point first. I didn't know that I didn't need to create an entry in fstab if I mount a USB stick as root. > Of course, this has been done for you as a convenience: there is > a /mnt directory specifically for temporarily mounting a device. > root@perfect:/# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt mount: /mnt: /dev/sdb1 already mounted or mount point busy root@perfect:/#
