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

ashwin kesavan iyengar ashwin.chn at gmail.com
Sat Jan 14 18:26:19 IST 2006


On 1/14/06, Toufeeq Hussain <toufeeqh at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/14/06, Binand Sethumadhavan <binand at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 14/01/06, Toufeeq Hussain <toufeeqh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> > > /dev/hdc1   *           1       19846    10002352+  83  Linux
> >
> > Can you toggle that "bootable" flag and see if it helps? In fdisk, the
> > command to do that is 'a'.
>
> I had created the partition with the boot flag unset.
> Had set it to see if I can mount it with it set.
>
> > If that does not work, also try:
> >
> > dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/hdc bs=512 count=1
> >
> > and repartition the disk, and run mke2fs.
>
> Didn't help.
>
> -Toufeeq


Could this be because u didn't enable LVM?

--ashwin


More information about the ilugc mailing list