Mounting a USB device fails with "Input/output error, mount: /dev/sdb already mounted or /mnt/ busy"

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Issue

  • We need to attach a USB disk to the machine, the system says that The device is already mounted. The machine is attached to a san and the multipath is handled by multipathd.

  • This is the error:

[root@localhost ~]# mount /dev/sdjq1 /mnt/usb/
/dev/sdjq1: Input/output error
mount: /dev/sdjq1 already mounted or /mnt/usb/ busy

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux(RHEL)

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