[Fwd: RE: Problem with mounting hard disk after FC5 installation]

Tony Nelson tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Thu May 4 17:35:18 UTC 2006


At 8:35 AM -0500 5/4/06, Brian Hanks wrote:
>>>OK.  Does it show up in /proc/mounts, by any chance?  (I'm presently
>>>feeling distrustful of mount.)  I'm not sure what partprobe has done --
>>>why anything changed.  Does "fdisk -l /dev/hde" (dash ell) output look
>>>sane?
>>It's not showing in /proc/mounts.  On the other hand the "fdisk -l
>>/dev/hde" output looks perfectly normal.  Very strange indeed,
>>especially since it will mount just fine if I use the FC4 kernel or
>>Knoppix.
>
>Here are a few more updates after more troubleshooting.  Removing the boot
>flag from the partition seems to have stopped the invalid block device
>message.  Now, I can run all of the e2 utlities including e2fsck (which
>returns a clean bill of health), but it still won't mount.  It's giving me
>the this message consistently "mount: /dev/hde1 already mounted or
>/mnt/tmp_dir busy".  One other thing that I noticed was that qtparted is
>throwing an error message that says "Error: File system has an
>incompatible feature enabled."  Regular parted and fdisk do not seem to
>produce the error.
>
>And the strangest part of all is that it continues to mount fine outside
>of FC5.

OK, I'm out of ideas.  Sorry.
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