sorry i meant to say over a current mount point not root mount point , or you may be in the directory you are trying to mount the new device under On 22 Feb 2006, at 23:42, Stephen Smithstone wrote: > > it may look like your trying to mount you new partition over you > current root partition instead of on a new mount point , what is > you mount command for the /dev/hde6 > > On 22 Feb 2006, at 23:32, Tom wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have just installed centos 4.2 on machine remotely and >> everything went well, a second drive was installed, I partitioned >> it, rebooted and then tried to mount it but keep getting the error >> >> mount: /dev/hde6 already mounted or /mnt/1 busy >> >> this happens with every partition on any secondary disk, we put a >> third disk in and get the same error. >> >> I have googled but not found anything relevant, most info relates >> to LVM or raid of which we have neither. >> >> any help greatly appreciated. >> >> tom >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos