> On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 10:16 +1300, Daniel Grant wrote: > > What is the output of these: > > grep hdb1 /etc/mtab > > Nothing, > > > grep hdb1 /proc/mounts > > And nothing. > > > > > I belive mount checks mtab, which could possibly get out > > of sync... > > How does mtab fit into the picture with fstab, et al.?
mtab is a list of currently mounted filesystems, but differs from /proc/mounts, in that is can hold more information like from the user flag, but can be a symlink to /proc/mounts if you don't want that info. More info under the mount manpage. What is the output of ls -la /mnt/hdb1 mount -v /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1 As a last thought, do you have strace installed? strace mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1 2>&1 | grep -i mount (with the relevant actual mount call probably returning EBUSY, but it is worth a try) Regards Daniel
