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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