Re: can't mke2fs hdb, says already mounted, but it isn't
>> Here is a good puzzler. I got a second ATAPI disk in my machine that I
>> was able to partition with fdisk, but cannot mkfs it. It says that the
>> device is already mounted but when I try to umount it, it says it is not
>> mounted. the blkid command I ran on the device contradicts with what df
>> tells me. You can see the commands and outputs below.
>>
>> I could try booting from a live cd and mkfs the drive, but I am very
>> curious why this is happening. I have never had this happen to me
>> before.
>>
>> engineering:/home/legg# fdisk -l /dev/hdb
>>
>> Disk /dev/hdb: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
>> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
>> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>> Disk identifier: 0x38ef9d17
>>
>> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>> /dev/hdb1 1 24321 195358401 83 Linux
>>
>> engineering:/home/legg# mke2fs -j /dev/hdb1
>> mke2fs 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008)
>> /dev/hdb1 is mounted; will not make a filesystem here!
>>
>> engineering:/home/legg# umount /dev/hdb1
>> umount: /dev/hdb1: not mounted
>>
>> engineering:/home/legg# mke2fs -j /dev/hdb1
>> mke2fs 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008)
>> /dev/hdb1 is mounted; will not make a filesystem here!
>>
>> engineering:/home/legg# blkid /dev/hdb1
>> /dev/hdb1: TYPE="swap"
>>
>> engineering:/home/legg# df -h
>> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/hda2 14G 3.1G 9.6G 25% /
>> tmpfs 506M 0 506M 0% /lib/init/rw
>> udev 10M 764K 9.3M 8% /dev
>> tmpfs 506M 0 506M 0% /dev/shm
>> /dev/hda3 3.7G 943M 2.6G 27% /home
>
> Strange because id 83 isn't swap.
>
> Check "swapon -s" nonetheless.
>
> If hdb1 is listed, run "swapoff /dev/hdb1" and re-run mkfs.
>
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