-----Original Message----- From: John Kasunich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 November 2008 08:16 PM To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Partition problem
John wrote> Did you unmount (umount) sda2 first? Remember, what "mount" does is takes the contents of a disk partition and associates them with a directory in the filesystem. If you mounted sda2 on /mnt/olddisk, then that directory is busy, and trying to mount sda1 in the same place will probably fail. (I say probably because I haven't checked the man-page - maybe mount would unmount sda2 first.) The other possibility is that sda2 is your main Ubunutu partition. If so, it is already mounted (it has to be, or your system wouldn't be running.) I don't know if mount would let you mount the same partition in two places, but I doubt it. If the mount fails, trying to list the directory is going to fail too. Don't delete anything for now. Unless you are running out of disk space and desperately need to enlarge your Ubuntu partition, just leave the old stuff alone for a while. If you suddenly realize "oops, I need that file from the old system", you can mount the old partition and recover it. Regards, John Kasunich Hello John Thanks for the reply, and I did not 'unmount' any thing oh dear! I think I will do it again. Can you tell the command line to 'unmount' a partition? - so that it will be ready for the next partition to mount. Thanks Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
