> > Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > sudo mount /dev/hda4 or sudo mount /dev/rex > > > > I get the response mount: /dev/hda4 already mounted or /rex busy. > > However, df, mount and /mtab all show that /dev/hda4 is not mounted. > > Are you sure that you have an *empty* /rex directory before you try mounting?
A directory need not be empty to mount anything on it. In fact, in my /floppy directory I have a file named "No floppy currently mounted.", so I will see this if I type `ls /floppy' when there is no mounted floppy. The problem probably is that there is a process which has /dev/rex as current directory, or has a file in /dev/rex opened, which makes /rex `busy'. HTH, Eric Meijer -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax +31 40 2455054
