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
This device wouldn't be a partition created in Windows and be formatted
with Windows?
If it is then boot into Windows and then SAFELY REMOVE it using Windows.
It seems that if you just unplug the device without 'removing' it a flag
(on the device) remains set and Linux assumes that it is already mounted
(or something like this :-) ).
(If it isn't a Win formatted device but formatted with Linux then it
wouldn't hurt to still try the above method to 'unmount' it (plug it in
and then use My Computer on the desktop to Safely Remove it) - you never
know......)
Ciao.
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