On Wednesday 04 April 2007 10:31, Ira Abramov wrote: > Quoting Shlomo Solomon, from the post of Wed, 04 Apr: > > When I try to mount one of the /dev/sdc partitions from the control > > panel, I get: mounting partition /dev/sdc9 in directory /c9 failed. > > I have no idea what that control panel actually does in the background, > and if Mandriva is not attempting to autmagically mount your partitions. The control panel is just a lazy man's way of creating the needed lines in /etc/fstab and the corresponding directories - the user gets to decide on the mount point names, etc. The actual mounting is also done only when the user specifically requests it.
I also tried manually adding a line to /etc/fstab and creating the corresponding directory (with completely different names than the ones I chose via the Control Panel) and got the same results. > > please try running "mount" with no options or "df" or cat the content of > /proc/mtab to see if it is indeed mounted or not. I tried all these before my previous post. The /dev/sdc partitions are definitely not mounted. In any case, I'm including the output below (and for comparison, similar commands relating to /dev/sdb). [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ mount |grep sdc [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ df|grep sdc [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat /etc/mtab|grep sdc [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ mount |grep sdb9 /dev/sdb9 on /3200-usr type reiserfs (rw) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ df|grep sdb9 /dev/sdb9 20G 33M 20G 1% /3200-usr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat /etc/mtab|grep sdb9 /dev/sdb9 /3200-usr reiserfs rw 0 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ mount /dev/sdc9 mount: only root can mount /dev/sdc9 on /c9 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] solomon]# mount /dev/sdc9 mount: /dev/sdc9 already mounted or /c9 busy And here again are the relevant parts of the output of fdisk -l: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 26 19457 156087540 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sdc5 26 1554 12281661 83 Linux /dev/sdc6 1555 1808 2040223+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sdc7 1809 4357 20474811 83 Linux /dev/sdc8 4358 6906 20474811 83 Linux /dev/sdc9 6907 8180 10233373+ 83 Linux << snip snip>> and cat /etc/fstab: /dev/sdc5 /c5 reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/sdc7 /c7 reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/sdc8 /c8 reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/sdc9 /c9 reiserfs defaults 1 2 << snip snip>> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] solomon]# mount /c9 > > mount: /dev/sdc9 already mounted or /c9 busy > > it could have already mounted it for you somewhere like /mount/SDC/ or > something. Mandriva loves adding bits that trigger mounting things > automaticly when you are in a graphic session. -- Shlomo Solomon http://the-solomons.net Sent by KMail (KDE 3.5.4) on LINUX Mandriva 2007 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
