Re: [opensuse] unable to mount partition

"David C. Rankin" wrote:

Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:

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Hi, "David C. Rankin" wrote:

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Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:

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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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org