At 2004-10-02T22:30:42+1200, Robert Fisher wrote:
> Thank you all for your patience. It is now sorted thanks to your
> advice.
Generally, if you have a problem mounting a filesystem, and you're not
sure what's going on, check the kernel log and you will have a much
better idea of what is going on. mount(8) will only return a vague
failure message in some cases, like your one, but the filesystem itself
will be spitting a more useful message into the kernel log at the same
time.
# mount / -oremount,umask=000
mount: / not mounted already, or bad option
# dmesg | tail
[...]
ReiserFS: hda1: warning: unknown mount option "umask=000"
The other thing is that you should not use mount options that you don't
understand, nor should you use an option for one filesystem when
mounting a different filesystem without first checking that it is
supported, and that it works the way that you expect.
Cheers,
-mjg
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