[SOLVED] drive not being mounted

[DrMartinus]

Hi,

I have a very strang problem: one hdd isn't mounted, and can't be mounted. mount tells: it is already mounted or the mountpoint is in use
But it definitely is not mounted - there is nothing to see in the mountpoint. And I can nout umount the drive.

The drive had been mounted regularly every time the machine booted up. Today, all of a sudden, it doesn't mount it any more. I have made no changes to fstab or anything else on the system. I checked in drive administration (control center), there it says that the file system is unclean. but running fsck says: the file system is mounted,
yet it isn't - that's what umount says.
Any ideas?

[caf4926]

You should post info from

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fdisk -l

and explain what's there and if you have assigned a mount point specifically in fstab which is not really necessary, though some choose to do it.

[DrMartinus]

The problem has already been solved - actually, by itself. After a time, about 30 minutes or so, the drive appeared. Something must have been using it in the background, but I didn't notice any process that would do that.
Anyway, I'm happy now. Thanks for your help!