problem with mounting.

i just installd a new kernel(2.6.14) and it seams to work fine, exept for the mounting of the hardrives. i get "mount: /dev/hdb1 already mounted or /home/mikul/share busy" when i try to mount and when i try to umount i get "umount: share: not mounted".

and the bootlog says:

Wed Dec 7 03:12:32 2005: * Checking root file system... ^[[80G Warning: fsck.reiserfs warning: option

Wed Dec 7 03:12:32 2005: No Implementation: Sorry, not implemented yet!

and the mtab says:

/dev/hda1 / reiserfs rw,notail 0 0

proc /proc proc rw 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0 tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,size=10M,mode=0755 0 0

if it has anything to do with it?

fstab:

/dev/hdd1 /home/mikul/share2 ext3 defaults 1 2

/dev/hdb1 /home/mikul/share reiserfs notail 0 0

anyone that knows what the problem could be?

/dev/hda1 / reiserfs rw,notail 0 0

I am assuming your /boot is also on reiserfs. What version is the reiserfs? The reason I ask is because I read somewhere (quite some time back though - so it might have changed) that GRUB has problems bootin off of some of the newer versions of ReiserFS. There was some mention of a patch, but I am guessing that would be a problematic way to go.

HTH

the strange thing is that the not even the ext3 hdd dosent mount. only the root (reiserFS 3 i think).

If you are getting a device busy while trying to mount /dev/hdb1, try:

lsof /dev/hdb1

This should tell you what processes are using the drive/partition. Kill those guys and proceed.

Also why this:

 /dev/hdd1 /home/mikul/share2 ext3 defaults 1 2

This tells the OS to dump the fs if it needs to be and do an fsck on it 2nd (order starts from 1) during bootup. I dont think you need this. To backup the drive use a separate cron job if possible and switch the last two numbers to 0.

Some basic details on fstab: http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html

/dev/hdb1 /home/mikul/share reiserfs notail 0 0

Add a defaults before notail and see what happens

HTH

i've tried that now but still dosent work. when i run the lsof /dev/hdb command i dosent get anything.

both ext3 and reiserfs is builtin in the kernel, and the root is set to reiserfs so i cant understand why it wont mount.

any clues?

i've tried that now but still dosent work. when i run the lsof /dev/hdb command i dosent get anything.

both ext3 and reiserfs is builtin in the kernel, and the root is set to reiserfs so i cant understand why it wont mount.

any clues? read here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=85444&highlight=mounted+busy worked for me too using the loop option on an EXT3 drive. I don't know if this is a proper way of doing it or just a temporary workaround.

Lost the drive wich was working fine to "already mounted or busy" after a kernel update.