Unable to mount a partition: Episode 2

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Net Llama! wrote:
> Maybe its already mounted?
Myles Green wrote:
> 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.
Alma J Wetzker wrote:
> > 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.
On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 09:59 -0700, Myles Green wrote:
> Sounds like I'm a bit late. Try <umount /dev/hda2 /mnt>?

No. The partition was not mounted. I repeat: it's NEVER mounted. `mount`
didn't list the partition. `umount` said it's not mounted.

If I booted into that root partition using `init=/bin/bash` at grub
prompt, then tried to mount the partition, mount would report
"Segmentation Fault".


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