problem mounting filesystem

[Alfred Hovdestad]

Did you reboot after you repartitioned the IDE drive?  You can usually 
get away without the reboot on SCSI drives but with IDE it is required 
to reread the partition table.

    Alfred



Bill Tangren wrote:
> Serge Dubrouski wrote:
> 
>> Check your /etc/mtab file. Looks like you somehow already have a
>> record for /home2 /dev/hdd1 there.
>>
>>
>>> [root aa2 ~]# mount /home2
>>> mount: /dev/hdd1 already mounted or /home2 busy
>>> [root aa2 ~]# mount /dev/hdd1
>>> mount: /dev/hdd1 already mounted or /home2 busy
>>> [root aa2 ~]# umount /dev/hdd1
>>> umount: /dev/hdd1: not mounted
>>> root aa2 ~]#
>>
>>
>>
> 
> No, /dev/hda2 and /dev/hdb2 are both there, but /dev/hdd1 is not.
> 
> I've looked for bad blocks on the drive. As far as I know, none were found.
> 
> Bill
>