Hmmm... I was hoping lsof would show a session sitting on /mnt/hdb1. umount -f /dev/hdb1 may help, but I'd have expected it to be listed under a df output, even if with an IO error.
can you make a new directory, and mount /dev/hdb1 there instead - or even better, rmdir /mnt/hdb1 ; mkdir /mnt/hdb1 and remount? If so, there's a problem with /mnt/hdb1, if not, it's a problem with /dev/hdb1! Try fdisk /dev/hdb at the 'Command (m for help):' prompt, type 'p' [here's the output from this machine - ignore the sda references, it's SATA] Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 10199 81923436 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 * 10200 19269 72854775 83 Linux /dev/sda3 19270 19457 1510110 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 19270 19457 1510078+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris at the 'Command (m for help):' prompt, type 'q' The important thing is that /dev/hdb1 comes up as type 83, linux. I really am clutching at straws here. My last bet is that /mnt/hdb isn't a directory. Cheers, Steve On Mon, February 20, 2006 9:56 am, HappyEvilSlosh wrote: > On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 09:39 +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote: >> Technically, you shouldn't use the terminating '/'... >> mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1 >> is better. However, here's a few questions: >> >> Does 'df' show an entry for /mnt/hdb1 > > Nope, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ df -hT > Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda5 ext3 9.9G 6.9G 2.5G 74% / > tmpfs tmpfs 253M 0 253M 0% /dev/shm > /dev/hda1 vfat 10G 2.3G 7.8G 23% /windows > tmpfs tmpfs 253M 140K 252M 1% /dev > >> Is there a directory /mnt/hdb1? > > Yes. > >> Does 'lsof | grep hdb1' give any output ( if you haven't got lsof >> installed, then I recommend you get it! ). > > Nope (as in no output rather than not installed). > >> Is there an entry in /etc/fstab for /dev/hdb1? > > Used to be, I commented it out when I realised it wasn't loading. > > It was > /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1 ext3 defaults,users 0 2 > >> can you fsck /dev/hdb1? > > amancha:~# fsck /dev/hdb1 > fsck 1.39-WIP (31-Dec-2005) > e2fsck 1.39-WIP (31-Dec-2005) > common: clean, 10811/24428544 files, 17491485/48839600 blocks > > I assume that's a yes? Truth be told I haven't used fsck all that often. > > --Slosh > > -- Let us have a moment of silence for all Americans who are now stuck in traffic on their way to a health club to ride a stationary bicycle. - Congressman Earl Blumenauer (Oregon)
