On 17/03/2008, Jörg Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I cannot mount an usb hd when it was connected while switching on my machine. > The message is the famous "already mounted or busy". I found many things in > google, but nothing matches my problem. > > symptoms: > - device is detected on startup (currently /dev/sdc with 3 partitions sdc1-3) > - mount -> usb hd not in list, so not mounted yet
Does "cat /proc/mount" produce the same result? Do you see any entry that you cannot identify as a disk you know (beside the usual proc, sysfs...)? Maybe there is a node in /dev referring to sdc with another name. > - lsofs -> empty for both the device (/dev/sdc2) and the mount point > - tried different mount points (no shell / file manager blocks the mount > point > - sudo mount -a / open disk in konqueror-> "already mounted or busy" Can you read the disk? E.g. (probably to be done as root) dd if=/dev/sdc of=/dev/null count=10 dd if=/dev/sdc2 of=/dev/null count=10 Can you mount it read-only (-o ro)? Bernardo
