On Sun, 10 Mar 2019, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
hi, I'm trying to format a new USB flash drive and I get this:==> mount | grep sdh ==> mkfs.vfat /dev/sdh1 mkfs.fat 4.1 (2017-01-24) mkfs.vfat: /dev/sdh1 contains a mounted filesystem. ==> mkfs /dev/sdh1 works
I said half-resolved, as I found a line with /dev/sdh1 in /etc/mtab. Removing it solved the problem, but remains the question: why /etc/mtab was not updated? best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel
