During a recent reinstall of 10.2 I mistakenly assigned a partition of a second drive (72GB-ext3 FS) to a mount point of /usr. I wanted to use that partition for /home and /root backup. I have a third drive with a linux partition (25GB-ext3 FS) on it and have successfully mounted it at /music off the /. I want to do the same with the 72GB partition but when I try to reassign it to /homeroot_bkup I receive the following error.

System error code was: 3302

This code I can not anywhere on Google.
I am using the partitioning tool in YAST
Can I change the mount pt to /homeroot_bkup via fstab?
When I open either the /usr directory or the 72GB partition they are identical. Same size, same content....???
I'm not sure what I'm looking at, is it the /usr directory with the contents of the 72GB partition? Or is it the 72GB partition with the contents of /usr?

type mount. what do you see?

What does your /etc/fstab look like?

what does fdisk say about the hard drive and this partiton?

mount =
/dev/hde2 is the partition in question:

linuxfan:/home/cbjhawks # mount
/dev/hda6 on / type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5)
/dev/hda7 on /home type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr)
/dev/hde5 on /home_backup type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hde2 on /usr type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /windows/C type ntfs (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,gid=100,umask=0002,nls=utf8)
/dev/hdb1 on /windows/D type ntfs (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,gid=100,umask=0002,nls=utf8)
/dev/hde1 on /windows/E type ntfs (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,gid=100,umask=0002,nls=utf8)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
linuxfan:/home/cbjhawks #

fstab =

/dev/hda6 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hda7 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/hde5 /home_backup ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hde2 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /windows/D ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hde1 /windows/E ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0

Not sure how to use fdisk program/command
Thoughts?

During installation you decided to install one of the key directories of linux /usr in that particular partition. /usr is like the dll directory under windows. Linux can not operate without it. So you would have to move it to another location. This is not a simple problem and even if "successful" you may have problems as you use it. So the best would be to reinstall linux if that partition is so important to you.

BTW, you can not mount more that "one file system" to the same mounting point so you can not mount /usr and /home to /dev/hd2

-=terry(Denver)=-

I would quess that I was looking at the 72gb when I view the /usr directory...or what am I looking at?....I dont plan on deleting/changing
anything in the /usr directory. I understand what that directory holds...Is it safe to write to the partition/usr dir.?
Reinstall was just completed the first of Oct....I dont want to go
down that road.

Would changing the /etc/fstab file to mount the partition as /linux_bkup to /dev/hd2 work...leaving /usr alone?

Or, should I just live with it? I can burn the files I need during monthly
backup.

As root can you do: and post the result?

linuxfan:/home/cbjhawks # fdisk -lu

Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders, total 156301488 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 63 94654979 47327458+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 94654980 156296384 30820702+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 94783500 95217254 216877+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6 95217318 121547789 13165236 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 121547853 156296384 17374266 83 Linux

Disk /dev/hdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 63 488392064 244196001 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/hde: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders, total 390721968 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hde1 * 63 175028174 87514056 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hde2 237103335 390716864 76806765 83 Linux
/dev/hde3 175028175 237103334 31037580 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hde5 175028238 237103334 31037548+ 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order