I have a secondary hard drive hooked up to my computer with gentoo linux. I created a partition on it using fdisk and I have since then tried to mount /dev/hdb1 (secondary drive) To /srv (my folder for myy secondary hard drive)

 

Whenever I try and:

mount /dev/hdb1 /srv I get 'Mount: /dev/hdb1 already mounted or /srv busy

 

Whenever I try

mount /dev/hdb1 I get 'Mount: can't find /dev/hdb1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab;

 

any help would be greatly appreciated

Are you sure it's not already mounted? :) Type 'mount' to check. Or maybe the mount point is really busy. ;) If you leave the mount point in the command mount looks in the mentioned files to check whether mount points and options have been defined there.

Quote:mount /dev/hdb1 /srv I get 'Mount: /dev/hdb1 already mounted or /srv busy

 

As z0ny suggested, check to ensure that /dev/hdb1 and /srv aren't already mounted somewhere, you can do this with:

 







 

OR

 







 

If they return nothing, then you know that they are not mounted.

 

Make sure that you are not sitting in the directory with a shell/program as this can cause "busy" issues.

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As z0ny suggested, check to ensure that /dev/hdb1 and /srv aren't already mounted somewhere, you can do this with:

 







 

OR

 







 

If they return nothing, then you know that they are not mounted.

 

Make sure that you are not sitting in the directory with a shell/program as this can cause "busy" issues.



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It worked! I made a file in nano and before it wouldn't work so now im assuming I have another ten gigs of space on my computer :)

Thanks guys.