I want to move my home directory to a new partition. Here is what I have.

[root@toblocal /]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 20.0 GB, 20020396032 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38792 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 20321 10241406 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 * 20321 20528 104422+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 20528 38792 9205245 8e Linux LVM
[root@toblocal /]#

I get the feeling that LVM is causing me a problem. I am new to LVM never had any need for it and really wish it was not here. I inherited this system so I have to deal with it. hda1 is free space hda2 is swap and hda3 is root with the /home directory.

Why can I not mount this partition?

[root@toblocal /]# mount -t ext3 /dev/hda1 /mnt/home
mount: /dev/hda1 already mounted or /mnt/home busy
[root@toblocal /]#

I just created /mnt/home so it's not busy. Also check this out:

[root@toblocal /]# umount /dev/hda1
umount: /dev/hda1: not mounted
[root@toblocal /]#

So now it's telling me its not mounted, I don't get it???And This:

[root@toblocal /]# df -hT
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
ext3 7.6G 6.4G 863M 89% /
/dev/hda2 ext3 99M 90M 4.4M 96% /boot
none tmpfs 252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm
[root@toblocal /]#

Huh???? What??? Where are my partitions?

If any one can make sense of this I'd be much obliged. Thanks in advance.

It may sound like a silly question but have you formatted /dev/hda1 yet? And was that successful?
mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda1

No not a silly question at all and thanks for your reply. /dev/hda1 is formatted and I still get:

[root@toblocal /]# mount -t ext3 /dev/hda1 /mnt/home
mount: /dev/hda1 already mounted or /mnt/home busy
[root@toblocal /]#

After it's formatted do I have to do anything else like restart a process or reboot or something?

Since it's strange to me that /dev/hda1 is your freespace, I would check /etc/fstab & make sure /dev/hda1 isn't already assigned to something conflicting.

Here is the guide I used, I just prescribed it the other day to someone else and he/she was also successful.

http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/01/...own-partition/

Edit: The person I prescribed it too was also using LVM

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=534841

Yea that is weird and I forgot to mention why. I had a dual boot going win2k/Fedora. Win2k was on hda1 and I got rid of that. Could Grub or the MBR be messing with it some how?

I will post my fstab but I can't ssh to this server outside the network so it will have to wait till Monday.

II've actually come accross both those web pages in my searches but I still can't get by the mounting? Anyway have a great weekend.

Ok here is fstab:


[root@toblocal /]# cat /etc/fstab
# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom auto pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
[root@toblocal /]#


Thanks.