Issues mounting a partiton

cavalierejody

I’m trying to mount a partition that I believe is unmounted but I get this:

$ sudo mount /dev/sdb /run/media/.../DOCS/  
mount: /dev/sdb is already mounted or /run/media/.../DOCS busy

So I tryed:

  
$ sudo umount /dev/sdb  
umount: /dev/sdb: not mounted

I tried with umount -l and umount -f too…
And even removing and re-creating /run/media/—/DOCS folder.
How could be that?

cavalierejody

I’m trying to mount a partition that I believe is unmounted but I get this:

$ sudo mount /dev/sdb /run/media/.../DOCS/  
mount: /dev/sdb is already mounted or /run/media/.../DOCS busy

So I tryed:

  
$ sudo umount /dev/sdb  
umount: /dev/sdb: not mounted

I tried with umount -l and umount -f too…
And even removing and re-creating /run/media/—/DOCS folder.
How could be that?

lots.0.logs

Hi,

You should not manually mount things inside /run. Also you cannot mount an entire device. You must mount a partition (sdb1,2,3, etc). Try this instead:

sudo mkdir /mnt/any-name  
sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/any-name

Cheers!

cavalierejody

Hi, thank you for your answer.
I cannot mount it under /mnt/ because I have some programs that use /run/media/… folders.
About sdb I tried sdb1 too without success.