unable to mount a partition a second time

[sy1234]

Sy Ali said the following on 06/28/2007 07:28 PM:
> There seems to be some default mount setting which makes it impossible
> for me to mount a partition a second time .. when that partition was
> already auto-mounted because of a setting in fstab.
>
> But checking fstab shows it as using default settings.
>
> On first boot, I cannot simply mount that partition a second time.
>
> But if I unmount it and then mount it once, and then twice.. it works!
>
> Does anyone know what's going on here?
>
Sortof self-solved.

Well, apparently I had to specify the filesystem when using mount.

Even though cfdisk correctly reported ext3 as the filesystem for the 
partitions involved, I had to mount -t ext2 some of the partitions.

BUT, other partitions would themselves decide to puke when mounted as 
ext2 so those had to instead be mounted as ext3.  Unsettling.


I would appreciate sagely advice as to what's going on here.. this is odd.


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