Same answer, unfortunately. root@fw1dv:~# parted -s /dev/sdb mklabel msdos; sleep 10;parted -s /dev/sdb mkpart primary "" 32256B 134249471B; sleep 10;parted -s /dev/sdb mkpart extended "" 134249472B 60022480895B; sleep 10; parted -s /dev/sdb mkpart logical "" 134249984B 2281724927B Warning: The resulting partition is not properly aligned for best performance. Warning: The resulting partition is not properly aligned for best performance. Warning: The resulting partition is not properly aligned for best performance. Error: Error informing the kernel about modifications to partition /dev/sdb5 -- Device or resource busy. This means Linux won't know about any changes you made to /dev/sdb5 until you reboot -- so you shouldn't mount it or use it in any way before rebooting. Error: Failed to add partition 5 (Device or resource busy)
> > I don't think this is what is supposed to happen - nothing is using that > device, > so one should be able to create all the partitions and do whatever partition > table manipulation one wants to do. The device shouldn't be "busy". But, well, > maybe udev is. Could you please redo that experiment with "sleep 10" in > between > the parted calls? > > Thanks a lot, > Michael >
