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Even i'm facing the same problem, but in my case i've a drive tht is being mounted on /mnt/ which readily gets mounted without any trouble using the command below.
Code:
mount /dev/sdb /mnt
i've also written a script to copy data and then remove it followed by umnounting and remounting the same dev_entry on /mnt/, After some iterations, while remounting the error msg comes up and further iterations are stopped
You are replying to a 7 year old thread. Start a new thread for new problems.
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to copy data and then remove it followed by umnounting and remounting the same dev_entry on /mnt/,
Why are you doing that? Mount a drive and leave it mounted until you no longer need it.
I suspect that it's busy and not getting umount one of those times. You can try the -f switch to umount but might get data loss.
Why are you doing that?
I suspect that it's busy and not getting umount one of those times.
I'm testing for a USB device driver. For which i need to follow this procedure and on the device being busy, I'm using `sync` command in the script after every copy and delete of the data.
However i'll try using -f switch as you suggested.
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Originally Posted by teckk
You are replying to a 7 year old thread.
Sorry for this, i didn't knew that the thread was running for so long.
Why are you mounting the device itself rather than the partition, eg: /dev/sdb1 ?
Bingo!! Remember that "mount" means "connect the filesystem on <device> to <mountpoint> There could be a filesystem on /dev/sdb, but probably not
AND.....don't mount it to /mnt---you'll just hide whatever mount points are in there. Go into /mnt and make a new mountpoint for whatever you are doing.
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