/dev/hdc1 to /dir not mounting

[Navrax]

everytime i

Code:

mount /dev/hdc1 /home/myuser/srv20

I get

Code:

mount: /dev/hdc1 already mounted or /home/user/srv20 busy

o_O

 

I'm just trying to mount my 20gb drive :/

 

Someone help! o_O

[anyweb]

can you please paste the results here of

 

Code:

fdisk -l

 

that's l as in larry

 

correct procedure for a mount is as follows

 

Code:

mount /dev/hdc1 /test

 

or something similar

 

 

are you sure your spare 20gb is infact /dev/hdc ????

 

cheers

 

anyweb

[Navrax]

Code:

Disk /dev/hdc: 20.0 GB, 20020396032 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38792 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

  Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdc1               1       38792    19551136+  83  Linux

[anyweb]

read [/url][url=<___base_url___>/index.php?showtopic=2268][/url][url=<___base_url___>/index.php?showtopic=2268]https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2268 for the solution to this problem

 

the user is using Gentoo if that makes a difference to anyone, and unknown to him, evms is managing/part of his filesystem

 

 

 

so /dev/hdb1 should be mounted as /dev/evms/hdb1

 

etc

 

cheers

anyweb

[zepcom]

Cross reference to my reply post here if you're using any recent redhat derivitive ...

 

--zepcom