cant mount drive
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Wed Oct 13 21:41:07 UTC 2004
On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 15:30, Uttiya Chowdhury wrote:
> > I used k3b and it did work now. However I tried to
> > mount the cd now to
> > view the files and make sure it mounted okay and it
> > still wont mount.
> > Its giving me the same already mounted error.
> >
> > I then DF'd and it isnt showing as being mounted
> >
> > df
> > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available
> > Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/hda2 36352632 32781044 1724960
> > 96% /
> > /dev/hda1 99043 16595 77334
> > 18% /boot
> > none 517844 0 517844
> > 0% /dev/shm
> > /dev/hdb1 57694324 47170648 7592896
> > 87% /corp
> >
> > mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
> > mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected,
> > mounting read-only
> > mount: /dev/cdrom already mounted or /mnt/cdrom busy
> >
>
> This is a problem I have often... "mount"
> command doesn't list the drive as mounted,
> umount won't unmount it saying it is not mounted,
> but mount won't mount it saying it is mounted.
>
> not sure what it is due to - I think it is due
> to the supermount automounter. If you find a
> good solution, let me know. I guess you will
> also found at this stage that the CD can't
> be ejected by pressing the switch on the drive,
> but giving the command eject /dev/cdrom will.
> Normally, reboot works for me - after
> reboot, when I put the disk in and wait for a few
> minutes, then the supermount mounts it. If it
> doesn't, then giving mount command works.
>
There are 2 files of interest for mounting.
/etc/fstab shows what is configured to be mounted
/etc/mtab shows what it thinks is already mounted.
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