[URGENT] Unable to mount a partition

[Steve Jardine]

Another thing, look at DMESG and /var/log/messages to see if that partition/disk is reporting failures.

Be advised, cables/drives "do" go bad..

Steve


On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 11:43:02 -0800
"Bob Hemus" <ol.bob at sisqtel.net> wrote:

> 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  
> 
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