[KLUG Members] mount and umount

[Eric Beversluis]

On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 11:47 -0500, Bruce Smith wrote:
> > I've got a partition on an external HDD.
> > This morning I mounted it (mount /dev/sdb3 /mnt/MAXext3) (as su) and
> > worked with it (rsync) as ordinary user.  The rsync went fine. Then I
> > switched back to root (su) and did umount /mnt/MAXext3. I initially got
> > a message that /mnt/MAXext3 was busy. So I went back to ordinary user
> > and cd'd away from there. Then returned to root and did the umount
> > again. This time it seemed to work. I disconnected the HDD (USB2) and
> > turned it off.
> > 
> > But now when I try to remount (mount /dev/sdb3 /mnt/MAXext3) I this
> > error message: /dev/sdb3 does not exist.
> 
> Check messages & dmesg after you connect the drive.  It may be assigned
> to a different SCSI controller the next time it's connected.  
> (it may be /dev/sdc3 or /dev/sdd3 or /dev/sda3 or ... )
> 
> Also "fdisk -l" will show all hard drives connected.
> 
>  - BS
> 
Thanks. That seems to have done it.
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