Re: Card Reader

chuck gelm
2005-04-07T21:35:17Z

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