[URGENT] Unable to mount a partition

[Alma J Wetzker]

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 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?

Just out of curiosity, why were you trying to fsck a partition that was
reported as mounted?  Bad things happen when you fsck a mounted
partition, just check the archives.

    -- Alma