[COLUG] Is the drive dead or not?

[Kent Broestl]

I booted from xubuntu 6.06 (live cd) and the had same results (cannot 
mount: drive busy; cannot umount: not mounted)

While the system is up and running,

did this:
#umount -f /dev/hdf1
umount2: Invalid argument
umount: /dev/hdf1: not mounted

did this:
# fsck /dev/hdf1
fsck 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
e2fsck 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
fsck.ext3: Device or resource busy while trying to open /dev/hdf1
Filesystem mounted or opened exclusively by another program?

I don't have anywhere to do a dd to, even if I wanted to, or another 
computer to take this drive out and use somewhere else.



Rob Funk wrote:
> On Thu 7 December 2006 9:36pm, Kent Broestl wrote:
>   
>> After mount -f /dev/hdf1 /storage the drive appears in the df and
>> mount. but... hdf1 should be 40GB and it shows up as only 9.2GB (the
>> same as hda2, aka / ) and the usage is exactly the same, too (696M).
>> None of the files that were in /storage are present on ls -la
>> /storage.
>>     
>
> The fact that hdf1 and hda2 are showing identical numbers while being 
> very different is suspicious.  I'd want to try hdf in a different 
> computer.  At least reboot from a CD and look at it again.
>
>   
>> fdisk -lu /dev/hdf1 looks okay:
>>     
>
> After that I'd try a fsck, with the filesystem unmounted.
>
>