Problem with fdisk/woody

[Olivier Bornet <Olivier.Bornet@puck.ch>]

Hello,

I have a problem with fdisk on my Ultra 10. My system is a woody debian,
with kernel 2.2.18pre21, fdisk from util-linux 2.10q-1.

At the installation, I have create only 2 partitions : hda1 with 2GB
ext2 for root, and hda2 with 128 MB for swap. (OK, I have also hda3
which is the Whole disk).

Now, as the system boot OK, and the network is also OK after updating
ifupdown to 0.6.4-3, I'm trying to make a user partition with the
rest of the disk. Here is the way I do it :

    cool:~# fdisk /dev/hda

    Command (m for help): p

    Disk /dev/hda (Sun disk label): 16 heads, 63 sectors, 17660 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes

    Device Flag    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
    /dev/hda1             0      4112   2072448   83  Linux native
    /dev/hda2  u       4112      4372    131040   82  Linux swap
    /dev/hda3             0     17660   8900640    5  Whole disk

    Command (m for help): n
    Partition number (1-8): 4
    First cylinder (4372-17660): 4372
    Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (4372-17660, default 17660): 
    Using default value 17660

    Command (m for help): p

    Disk /dev/hda (Sun disk label): 16 heads, 63 sectors, 17660 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes

    Device Flag    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
    /dev/hda1             0      4112   2072448   83  Linux native
    /dev/hda2  u       4112      4372    131040   82  Linux swap
    /dev/hda3             0     17660   8900640    5  Whole disk
    /dev/hda4  u       4372     17660   6697152   83  Linux native

    Command (m for help): w
    The partition table has been altered!

    Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
    Re-read table failed with error 16: Device or resource busy.
    Reboot your system to ensure the partition table is updated.
    Syncing disks.
    cool:~# 

Unfortunatly, rebooting the system don't work : after the reboot, the
newly partition don't exist. I want to make a new partition, and than
mkfs.ext2 it and use it. How ?

Thanks in advance for the help.

		Olivier

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