Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am unable to mount a partition, whenever I try I get the following error 
> message:
> 
> mount /export
> mount: /dev/sdc1 already mounted or /export busy
> 
> lsof /export does not list anything, /dev/sdc1 is not listed in /etc/mtab 
> nor in /proc/mounts, so I wonder how the system gets this idea?
> 
> There is also nothing showing up in messages or dmesg. 
> I also disabled the nfsserver and rebooted the system, but with the same 
> effect, unable to mount.
> When I try to fsck the filesystem, I get the followign error:
> fsck.ext3 /dev/sdc1
> e2fsck 1.40.2 (12-Jul-2007)
> fsck.ext3: Device or resource busy while trying to open /dev/sdc1
> Filesystem mounted or opened exclusively by another program?
> 
> 
> I'm on opensuse 10.3, x86_64. Any idea whats going on here?
> 
> cheers
> Sebastian
> 

Just for grins have you tried

unmount /export
or
unmount /dev/sdc1

Also what does df show.

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