Hello Can you please describe what exactly have you done in order to mount the hard drive? Did you use fdisk? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nauman Abbas" <nauman.abbas(a)seecs.edu.pk&gt; To: Users(a)ovirt.org Sent: Monday, December 23, 2013 9:23:14 AM Subject: [Users] Cannot configure storage Hello all I'm booting oVirt node from USB and want to use my hard drive for storing VMs and stuff. When I have booted the node from USB I try to mount the hard drive into a folder in the file-system but I am getting the following error. mount: /dev/sda1 is already mounted or /mnt busy Anyone who knows about this error? Regards Nauman Abbas Assistant System Administrator (LMS), Room No. A-207, SEECS, National University of Sciences & Technology, + 92 321 5359946 _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Sander, here's the outputs for the two commands I used the following command to mount mount /dev/sda /mnt/ [root@usbnode1 ~]# fdisk -l WARNING: fdisk GPT support is currently new, and therefore in an experimental phase. Use at your own discretion. Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160000000000 bytes, 312500000 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk label type: gpt # Start End Size Type Name 1 2048 312499966 149G Linux filesyste 2 34 2047 1007K Linux filesyste WARNING: fdisk GPT support is currently new, and therefore in an experimental phase. Use at your own discretion. Disk /dev/mapper/ST3160815AS_9RXCL4HB: 160.0 GB, 160000000000 bytes, 312500000 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk label type: gpt # Start End Size Type Name 1 2048 312499966 149G Linux filesyste 2 34 2047 1007K Linux filesyste Disk /dev/mapper/ST3160815AS_9RXCL4HB1: 160.0 GB, 159998934528 bytes, 312497919 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk /dev/mapper/ST3160815AS_9RXCL4HB2: 1 MB, 1031168 bytes, 2014 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes WARNING: fdisk GPT support is currently new, and therefore in an experimental phase. Use at your own discretion. Disk /dev/sdb: 7803 MB, 7803174912 bytes, 15240576 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk label type: gpt # Start End Size Type Name 1 2048 499711 243M BIOS boot parti primary 2 499712 1499135 488M EFI System primary 3 1499136 2500607 489M Microsoft basic primary 4 2500608 15239167 6.1G Linux LVM primary WARNING: fdisk GPT support is currently new, and therefore in an experimental phase. Use at your own discretion. Disk /dev/mapper/Kingston_DataTraveler_2.0_C860008863CCED91EA06003B-0:0: 7803 MB, 7803174912 bytes, 15240576 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk label type: gpt # Start End Size Type Name 1 2048 499711 243M BIOS boot parti primary 2 499712 1499135 488M EFI System primary 3 1499136 2500607 489M Microsoft basic primary 4 2500608 15239167 6.1G Linux LVM primary Disk /dev/mapper/Kingston_DataTraveler_2.0_C860008863CCED91EA06003B-0:0p1: 254 MB, 254803968 bytes, 497664 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk /dev/mapper/Kingston_DataTraveler_2.0_C860008863CCED91EA06003B-0:0p2: 511 MB, 511705088 bytes, 999424 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk /dev/mapper/Kingston_DataTraveler_2.0_C860008863CCED91EA06003B-0:0p3: 512 MB, 512753664 bytes, 1001472 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk /dev/mapper/Kingston_DataTraveler_2.0_C860008863CCED91EA06003B-0:0p4: 6522 MB, 6522142720 bytes, 12738560 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk /dev/mapper/live-rw: 1610 MB, 1610612736 bytes, 3145728 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk /dev/mapper/HostVG-Swap: 3095 MB, 3095396352 bytes, 6045696 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk /dev/mapper/HostVG-Config: 8 MB, 8388608 bytes, 16384 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk /dev/mapper/HostVG-Logging: 2147 MB, 2147483648 bytes, 4194304 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk /dev/mapper/HostVG-Data: 1266 MB, 1266679808 bytes, 2473984 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes [root@usbnode1 ~]# blockdev --report RO RA SSZ BSZ StartSec Size Device rw 1024 512 4096 0 160000000000 /dev/sda rw 1024 512 512 2048 159998934528 /dev/sda1 rw 1024 512 1024 34 1031168 /dev/sda2 rw 256 512 4096 0 160000000000 /dev/dm-0 rw 256 512 512 0 159998934528 /dev/dm-1 rw 256 512 1024 0 1031168 /dev/dm-2 rw 256 512 4096 0 7803174912 /dev/sdb rw 256 512 4096 2048 254803968 /dev/sdb1 rw 256 512 4096 499712 511705088 /dev/sdb2 rw 256 512 4096 1499136 512753664 /dev/sdb3 rw 256 512 4096 2500608 6522142720 /dev/sdb4 rw 256 512 4096 0 7803174912 /dev/dm-3 rw 256 512 4096 0 254803968 /dev/dm-4 rw 256 512 4096 0 511705088 /dev/dm-5 rw 256 512 1024 0 512753664 /dev/dm-6 rw 256 512 4096 0 6522142720 /dev/dm-7 rw 256 512 4096 0 1610612736 /dev/dm-8 rw 256 512 4096 0 3095396352 /dev/dm-9 rw 256 512 1024 0 8388608 /dev/dm-10 rw 256 512 4096 0 2147483648 /dev/dm-11 rw 256 512 4096 0 1266679808 /dev/dm-12 On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Sander Grendelman <sander(a)grendelman.com&gt;wrote: -- Nauman Abbas Assistant System Administrator (LMS), Room No. A-207, SEECS, National University of Sciences & Technology, + 92 321 5359946