unable to view contents of /home
 

contents of my home directory could not viewed. when i try to mount /home message comes: /home busy or mounted already.

when umount is tried the message: not mounted
my /home directory is on separate partition on the hard disk(/dev/sb1)
contents of /etc/fstab are:
/dev/sda1 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
#/dev/sdb1 /home reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/sda2 swap swap pri=42 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0




Morever when i removed the comment in line 2, there was no change.
pl help me out!

what does "df" say?

df is displaying the proper output usage is some 60% and /dev/sdb1 is mounted on /

Are there any other partitions on sdb besides your /home?
Is the disk failing, perhaps?

fdisk -l /dev/sdb

Boot from a live-cd or boot disk with SATA support (I'm assuming these are sata disks) and see if the data is still present.

Check dmesg for mentions (on normal boot)
dmesg |grep sdb

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