On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 09:56:52PM +0000, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > You can't go back and use the partitioner if the disk is already > in use in some way: fails to write to disk. should only happen on ide disks, isn't it? Did you mean the following error message from fdisk? WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error 16: Device or resource busy. The kernel still uses the old table. The new table will be used at the next reboot. Syncing disks. > e.g. if we create and mount swap space, then go back to create/edit > an unrelated partition, leaving fdisk it fails. > We need to handle this in some way (just warn / explain to user?) yes, of course. We need a lot of more user-friendly error messages. But it's very hard to capture the output from the userland binaries and print a good and detailed error message (with extactly the happend problem) to the user. Thanks Thorsten -- Thorsten Sauter <tsauter@gmx.net> (Is there life after /sbin/halt -p?)
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