On 27 Jun 2000, Aharon Schkolnik wrote:

> Now, I try to run mkswap /dev/sdb5  
> 
> Here's what I get:
> 
> # mkswap /dev/sdb5
> /dev/sdb5: Device not configured 
> 

since there are mounted partitions from that drive, the kernel did not
re-read the partition table. you will need to reboot first.

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