Re: etch: cannot mount usb hd

2008-03-25 Thread Bernardo Dal Seno
On 24/03/2008, Jörg Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, I don't find any error or warning message about my sdc2, but from device-mapper, in the kernel logs. Mar 19 16:19:41 gandalf kernel: Filesystem dm-0: Disabling barriers, not supported by the underlying device This sounds as a

Re: etch: cannot mount usb hd

2008-03-24 Thread Jörg Becker
On Sunday 23 March 2008 19:49, Bernardo Dal Seno wrote: On 19/03/2008, Jörg Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also tried noauto in fstab an manually mount after boot. But with the same result: device is busy. Does any error or warning message appear in kernel logs? Either at startup, or

Re: etch: cannot mount usb hd

2008-03-23 Thread Bernardo Dal Seno
On 19/03/2008, Jörg Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also tried noauto in fstab an manually mount after boot. But with the same result: device is busy. Does any error or warning message appear in kernel logs? Either at startup, or when you try to mount the device? Happy Easter Bernardo

Re: etch: cannot mount usb hd

2008-03-19 Thread Jörg Becker
On Tuesday 18 March 2008 00:11, Bernardo Dal Seno wrote: Does cat /proc/mount produce the same result? yes Do you see any entry that you cannot identify as a disk you know (beside the usual proc, sysfs...)? Maybe there is a node in /dev referring to sdc with another name. I think this looks

Re: etch: cannot mount usb hd

2008-03-19 Thread Jörg Becker
On Monday 17 March 2008 23:21, Ron Johnson wrote: Maybe it's still spinning up during the first power-up attempt?  If so, and it gets external power, maybe turn it on first? I tried it without success. Jörg

Re: etch: cannot mount usb hd

2008-03-19 Thread Bob McGowan
Jörg Becker wrote: On Tuesday 18 March 2008 00:11, Bernardo Dal Seno wrote: Does cat /proc/mount produce the same result? ---deleted on purpose--- Can you mount it read-only (-o ro)? mount /media/backup/: mount: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WDC_WD30_00JB-00KFA0_0-part2 already mounted or

Re: etch: cannot mount usb hd

2008-03-19 Thread Jörg Becker
On Wednesday 19 March 2008 19:15, Bob McGowan wrote: Have you tried unmounting it, perhaps using the -n (don't write mtab) or -f (force unmount, usually useful with unreachable NFS server mounts, but who knows?). umount -n /dev/sdc2 umount: /dev/sdc2: not mounted umount -f /dev/sdc2 umount2:

etch: cannot mount usb hd

2008-03-17 Thread Jörg Becker
Hello everyone, I cannot mount an usb hd when it was connected while switching on my machine. The message is the famous already mounted or busy. I found many things in google, but nothing matches my problem. symptoms: - device is detected on startup (currently /dev/sdc with 3 partitions

Re: etch: cannot mount usb hd

2008-03-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/08 12:04, Jörg Becker wrote: Hello everyone, I cannot mount an usb hd when it was connected while switching on my machine. The message is the famous already mounted or busy. I found many things in google, but nothing matches my

Re: etch: cannot mount usb hd

2008-03-17 Thread Bernardo Dal Seno
On 17/03/2008, Jörg Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cannot mount an usb hd when it was connected while switching on my machine. The message is the famous already mounted or busy. I found many things in google, but nothing matches my problem. symptoms: - device is detected on startup