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