[Ilugc] Disk Mounting problem[says 'already mounted']

[Natarajan K]

On 1/14/06, Toufeeq Hussain <toufeeqh at gmail.com> wrote:
> sekrity:~# mkdir /mnt/disk
> sekrity:~# mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/disk/
> mount: /dev/hdc1 already mounted or /mnt/disk/ busy
> sekrity:~# mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc1 /mnt/disk/
> mount: /dev/hdc1 already mounted or /mnt/disk/ busy
>
> This is where my problem is.
> While trying to mount it says it's already mounted!
> I tried the same after a reboot, same problem.

Can you try posting the strace output of the mount command? You might
get to know what exactly is going wrong.

sekrity:~# strace mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/disk/

Natarajan
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