Hi, On a 10.3beta2 couple days ago my /dev/sdb1 was perfectly mountable. It was not in in fstab on purpose, mind you. Then something got updated by opensuse updater and sdb1 was not mountable anymore.
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt said "already mounted or /mnt busy" which was so not true. Errk. Googling I found people almost back in the last century debating this. The good advice pointed towards device-mapper. Turned out that device-mapper had grabbed sdb. So can _I_ do something with it too? Like use my hard disk? Not that I ever configured, invoked, worshipped device-mapper at all. dmsetup ls gave me 2 strings garbled together from device-mapper lingo and the name and serial number of my disk. Like linear-scsi-SATA_ST3500630A_serial_number (253, 0) and linear-scsi-SATA_ST3500630A_serial_number_part1 (253, 1) dmsetup remove linear-scsi-SATA_ST3500630A_serial_number_part1 and dmsetup remove linear-scsi-SATA_ST3500630A_serial_number and mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt and things are back the way they were. Am I missing something deep? Plus: Apart from police people who in this whole wide world thinks having serial numbers of your disks all over the system was cool? Could that be, like, an _option_ please? My face turns all yellow when I look at /etc/fstab these days. Can someone tell me the advantages of this? Thanks, and thank you for a pretty amazing beta2. Wolfgang --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
