[URGENT] Unable to mount a partition

[Bob Hemus]

On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 09:59 -0700, Myles Green wrote:
> On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 23:46:45 +0800
> Man-wai CHANG <mwchang at i-cable.com> 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 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?
> 
> Sorry to ask the obvious but did you unmount the drive yourself after
> booting Knoppix? The last time I used Knoppix it mounted all the disk
> partitions during boot-up.
Sounds like I'm a bit late. Try <umount /dev/hda2 /mnt>?
Bob