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. Tim Legg 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
