From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: chuck gelm Subject: Re: Card Reader Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 17:35:17 -0400 Message-ID: <4255A795.9010901@gelm.net> References: Reply-To: chuck@gelm.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: smertens@mho.com Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs