[nylug-talk] Is it mounted or not ??

[Paul Robbins]

This may seem rather 'd'uh', but are you or another user currently in a
directory on that mounted system?  If someone is currently on the mounted
filesystem, it won't report the right information or it will say it is busy.

Just a thought.

On 10/2/06, matt black <linuxmania1 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yes of course. And its not listed as being mounted.
> Except then when we try to mount it, then it says its already mounted (or
> mount point busy.)
>
> Can see no reason the mount point would be busy, so its a funny circle.
> Still feel like we're missing something obvious, although not so obvious
> as
> simply typing "mount."
>
> Matt
>
>
> >If you type "mount" by itself then it will tell you what is mounted and
> >what
> >isn't.
> >
> >
> >On Monday 02 October 2006 12:12, matt black wrote:
> > > In the process of trying to recover from a quantum fireball IDE HD,
> >we're
> > > getting this odd result:
> > >
> > > mb at akron: sudo bash
> > > root at akron:# mount -v -t ext2 /dev/hdd /mnt/fam
> > > mount: /dev/hdd already mounted or /mnt/fam busy
> > > root at akron:# umount /dev/hdd
> > > umount: /dev/hdd not mounted
> > > root at akron:# umount /mnt/fam
> > > umount: /mnt/fam not mounted
> > > root at akron: mount -v -t ext2 /dev/hdd /mnt/fam
> > > mount: /dev/hdd already mounted or /mnt/fam busy
> > >
> > > So is it mounted or not ?!
> > >
>
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