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 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Avoid tiresome daily goat sacrifices - use Debian Linux http://www.debian.org
