"David C. Rankin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
> > Hi,
> > "David C. Rankin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> >> 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
> >>>
> 
> Is /export a Windows NTFS formatted file system that you run dual-boot.
> If so, like was mentioned earlier, your last Windows session did not
> shut down cleanly and will not mount until you reboot and let XP of God
> forbid Vista clean up after themselves. If that is the problem, it will
> mount fine after that.
> 
> If not, I'm running out of ammo except to look at the partition in a
> partitioner. All that data is backed up - right?

as mentioned in another mail, the device mapper made kept sdc1 busy. 
in /etc/blkid.tab I found these lines:

<device DEVNO="0x0802" TIME="1198055523" 
UUID="212b4536-513f-4177-8d91-afc2b26be284" SEC_TYPE="ext2" 
TYPE="ext3">/dev/sda2</device>
<device DEVNO="0x0811" TIME="1198055523" 
UUID="83db89c9-88a7-4c09-8026-01a9bd71c757" SEC_TYPE="ext2" 
TYPE="ext3">/dev/sdb1</device>
<device DEVNO="0x0812" TIME="1198055523" 
UUID="60a371a6-6e24-4a3d-bfe9-d3491f08cd83" SEC_TYPE="ext2" 
TYPE="ext3">/dev/sdb2</device>
<device DEVNO="0x0813" TIME="1198055523" 
UUID="0d8ec0ca-9670-4e87-a37e-aac3914a7651" SEC_TYPE="ext2" 
TYPE="ext3">/dev/sdb3</device>
<device DEVNO="0x0815" TIME="1198055523" 
UUID="cf71aa66-2a51-4596-967b-bc12faec5438" SEC_TYPE="ext2" 
TYPE="ext3">/dev/sdb5</device>
<device DEVNO="0x0821" TIME="1198055523" 
UUID="51bba5c7-acda-4019-94d8-691103f30616" SEC_TYPE="ext2" 
TYPE="ext3">/dev/sdc1</device>
<device DEVNO="0xfd03" TIME="1199870056" 
UUID="4e4b8361-0c9f-47c5-ac47-34398148d78e" SEC_TYPE="ext2" 
TYPE="ext3">/dev/dm-3</device>

The UUID for /dev/sdc1 and /dev/dm-3 are the same, so I remove the last line 
and rebooted the system. My hope was that the /dev/mapper/... stuff for the 
sdc disk will disappear, but that was not the case, the removed line appeare 
again in the /etc/blkid.tab file, /dev/sdc1 still busy, and I only was able 
to mount /dev/mapper/....

I wonder why this is not happen to the /dev/sdb* partitions. I haven't 
configure anything related to that intentionally.  The sdb and sdc are two 
disks with each 1.7 TB, it is just that sdb is divided into a lot partitions 
where sdc is just one large partition. I have no idea why it should but 
maybe it depends somehow on the size of the partition?

I have the disks connected via SCSI to another 10.2 box, there does 
the /etc/blkid.tab file not exist, and I can just mount /dev/sdc1 there.
dm_mod module is loaded on both systems.


also a rpm -qf /etc/blkid.tab says file /etc/blkid.tab is not owned by any 
package. 

So I am still wondering, why this happens to /dev/sdc but not to /dev/sdb, 
any idea?

cheers
Sebastian

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