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