On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 02:45:28PM +0900, David Cournapeau wrote: > It seems like my partition table is messed up, and I am not able to > mount all my partitions. For example, mount refuse to mount /dev/hda12 > on any directory: when I do a mount -r /dev/hda12 /mnt/tmp, mount tells > me that hda12 is already mounted, or that /mnt/tmp is busy. The > partition is not mounted for sure, and I tried several other tempory > locations, without any success. The "funny" part is that a fsck.ext3 > /dev/hda12 doesn't give me any error when I check the filesystem (which > let me some hope about the possible recovery). One thing no one else mentioned that you might want to check is that /etc/mtab is up-to-date (it's a plain text file that you can cat). If there is an entry in there for a partition that isn't mounted, the mount command still won't let you mount it. Chuck
