[SOLVED] Cannot mount ntfs drive

Question

Every time I try to mount my Windows 7 hdd, I receive an error:
fuse: mount failed: Device or resource busy
The commands I used to try to mount all resulted in the same error:
sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/ntfs
sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt/ntfs
sudo mount /dev/disk/by-uuid/C0940E83940E7BE2 /mnt/ntfs
Switching to root also did not remedy the error.  Putting the entry in fstab does not mount it at boot, giving the same error.
fdisk -l reveals the following:
Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 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 identifier: 0x79109c6b
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 97659134 48829536 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 97659135 107426654 4883760 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 107426655 1953520064 923046705 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 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 identifier: 0xed6ad455
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 2048 976771071 488384512 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
Any help would be appreciated.  Thank you.
EDIT: Solution:
As it turns out, a couple years ago, I had a mirrored RAID.  Even when got rid of the RAID, got a new drive, reformatted and installed Arch, my secondary, NTFS drive would not mount.
Here is exactly what fixed it:
Issuing the command `cat /proc/mdstat` shows all RAID arrays.  Mine showed the following:
Personalities :
md127 : inactive sdb[1](S)
488386496 blocks
`sudo mdadm --stop /dev/md127` stopped the array.
`sudo mdadm --remove /dev/md127` removed the array.
new output of  `cat /proc/mdstat`
Personalities :
unused devices: <none>
`sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/1` worked.
Last edited by AngryKoala (2011-06-11 23:30:31)

Answer 1

vadmium wrote:
You don’t happen to have something that sdb1 partition mounted or opened somewhere else? If I try to mount my NTFS partition while it’s already mounted it gives the same “Device or resource busy”.
What does the “mount” and “cat /proc/mounts” tell you?
Output of mount:
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=10240k,nr_inodes=506959,mode=755)
run on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=10240k,mode=755)
/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,commit=0)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,mode=600,ptmxmode=000)
shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
tmpfs on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777,size=10m)
tmpfs on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755,size=10m)
/dev/sda3 on /home type ext4 (rw,noatime,commit=0)
Output of cat /proc/mounts:
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
sys /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
udev /dev devtmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,size=10240k,nr_inodes=506959,mode=755 0 0
run /run tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=10240k,mode=755 0 0
/dev/sda1 / ext4 rw,noatime,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,mode=600,ptmxmode=000 0 0
shm /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /var/lock tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=10240k 0 0
tmpfs /var/run tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=10240k,mode=755 0 0
/dev/sda3 /home ext4 rw,noatime,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0