[URGENT] Unable to mount a partition

[Net Llama!]

On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, Man-wai CHANG wrote:
>
> My colleague's Redhat 9 failed to boot, showing a error in
> /etc/rc.sysinit line 182. I booted the machine with a Knoppix Live CD.
> Then I tried to mount the root partition, it said the device is busy or
> already mounted.

I fail to understand how some vague, undefined error in /etc/rc.sysinit is 
preventing /dev/had2 from mounting.  How did you come to that conclusion?

>
> I tried running `badblocks /dev/hda2`, no error reported.
>
> Then I `e2fsck /dev/hda2`, it still said the device is busy.
>
> Now how could I safely recover the partition? Is it a dead superblock?

Maybe its already mounted?

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