Re: Card Reader

[chuck gelm <chuck@gelm.net>]

smertz wrote:
> I have a new computer I installed Linux on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 
> release 4 (Nahant), it has one of those all-in-one card readers on it. I 
> have made mountpoints as root as follows for my thumb, Compact flash and 
> secure digital drive.
> 
> mkdir /mnt/thumb
> mkdir /mnt/cf
> mkdir /mnt/sd
> 
> 
> Now when I tried to mount the Thumb (USB) drive I got an error # mount 
> /dev/sda2 /mnt/thumb
> mount: /dev/sda2 already mounted or /mnt/thumb busy.
> 
> 
> So what have I done wrong? I'm thinking sda2 is wrong, but don't know why?
> 
> df -h shows the following
> 
> [root localhost mnt]# df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
>                      183G  2.9G  171G   2% /
> /dev/sda1              99M   19M   76M  20% /boot
> none                  247M     0  247M   0% /dev/shm
> [root localhost mnt]#
> 
> 
> Thanks.

Hi, smertz:

  If /dev/sda* is already being used, try /dev/sdb*.

HTH, Chuck



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