Re: Debian and two more OS's
On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 10:48:03AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 07:09:43PM +0100, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 11:29:24PM +0200, Jan Krupa wrote:
> > > Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
> > > Syncing disks.
> > > Re-read table failed with error 16: Device or resource busy.
> > > Reboot your system to ensure the partition table is updated.
> >
> > Did you reboot before trying mke2fs /dev/hda3??
>
> Every time this has happened to me, the actual changes to the
> partition table have not been written. I always make sure I have no
> mounted partitions on disks I am running fdisk on; that avoids the problem.
I _think_ I had this at work the other day and all was fine (the partition
table had been written). It definitely said that I needed to reboot anyway.
At least I only had to reboot once and not fifteen times like today
- testing installs on NT :-(
Adrian
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