[arch-general] boot from install medium - mounting additional partition refused
Hi archers, today i was booting from the install medium dd'ed on an usb drive. As there is space left on the medium I created one more partition to load or save stuff from the system booted. Surprisingly I cannot boot: root@archiso ~ # mount /dev/sdb3 /mnt mount: /mnt: /dev/sdb3 already mounted or mount point busy. I could not find an obvious reason for that: /dev/sdb is the usb device. root@archiso ~ # lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT loop0 7:0 0 489.4M 1 loop /run/archiso/sfs/airootfs sda 8:0 0 186.3G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 1G 0 part └─sda2 8:2 0 10G 0 part sdb 8:16 1 1.9G 0 disk /run/archiso/bootmnt ├─sdb1 8:17 1 1.1G 0 part ├─sdb2 8:18 1 64M 0 part └─sdb3 8:19 1 792M 0 part root@archiso ~ # findmnt /dev/sdb3 1 root@archiso ~ # root@archiso ~ # findmnt /mnt 1 root@archiso ~ # Does anybody know how to nail down this one? -- Friedrich
Hi *, Ups wrong action.. Am 10.04.19 um 00:32 schrieb Friedrich Strohmaier:
Hi archers,
today i was booting from the install medium dd'ed on an usb drive.
As there is space left on the medium I created one more partition to load or save stuff from the system booted. Surprisingly I cannot boot: ^^^^^ should read I cannot *mount* sorry.
root@archiso ~ # mount /dev/sdb3 /mnt mount: /mnt: /dev/sdb3 already mounted or mount point busy.
I could not find an obvious reason for that: /dev/sdb is the usb device.
root@archiso ~ # lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT loop0 7:0 0 489.4M 1 loop /run/archiso/sfs/airootfs sda 8:0 0 186.3G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 1G 0 part └─sda2 8:2 0 10G 0 part sdb 8:16 1 1.9G 0 disk /run/archiso/bootmnt ├─sdb1 8:17 1 1.1G 0 part ├─sdb2 8:18 1 64M 0 part └─sdb3 8:19 1 792M 0 part
root@archiso ~ # findmnt /dev/sdb3 1 root@archiso ~ #
root@archiso ~ # findmnt /mnt 1 root@archiso ~ #
Does anybody know how to nail down this one?
-- Friedrich
Hi Friedrich, not a solution but an option: Try building your own ArchISO. More below.
As there is space left on the medium I created one more partition to load or save stuff from the system booted.
I had a similar situation where I wanted `Borg` (my backup executable) and some `pass` encrypted passwords on my recovery disk. I ended up building my own ISO. Which was a nice winter weekend evening project and a lot easier than I thought. Here’s the wiki page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Archiso —Florian
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Florian Wehner
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Friedrich Strohmaier