>> 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 >
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