You've probably got some corruption on the root partition. To fix that, boot off a CD and fsck. I'd also remove /etc/mtab ( the list of mounted partitions ) at the same time.
hth, Steve On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:59:50 +1300 Greg Trounson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > After a recent crash resulting from trying to run two simultaneous X > servers I am seeing strange behaviour with some mounted disk partitions. > > Usually I have the following mounted: > /dev/hda1 / > /dev/hda2 /games > /dev/hdb1 /backup > /dev/hdb2 /localarchive > > However after the crash and a reboot I got a message like this on bootup: > /dev/hdb1 is already mounted, aborting > Press enter for maintenance > (or type Control-D to continue): > > So after remounting / as read-write I edited /etc/fstab to zero the > check on startup flags for those filesystems. Now the system boots up > fine and mounts those filesystems, but neither "df" or "mount" show them > as being mounted. Unmounting them does nothing either, but they're > definitely mounted since I can access the files on them without problems. > > Has anyone else encountered this bizarre behaviour and have an idea of > how one might fix it? > > thanks, > Greg > > > /etc/fstab: > /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 > /dev/hda2 /games ext3 defaults 0 0 > none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 > /dev/hdb1 /backup ext3 defaults 1 0 > /dev/hdb2 /localarchive ext3 defaults 1 0 > #/dev/hdc1 /mainarchive ext3 defaults 1 2 > none /proc proc defaults 0 0 > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > /SWAPFILE swap swap defaults 0 0 > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
