Re: can't mke2fs hdb, says already mounted, but it isn't

2009-12-17 Thread David Kubicek
On 12/15/2009 10:15 PM, Timothy Legg wrote: 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

Re: can't mke2fs hdb, says already mounted, but it isn't

2009-12-15 Thread Tim Legg
Interesting result! FilenameTypeSizeUsedPriority /dev/hda1 partition 1951856 48 -1 /dev/hdb1 partition 167798520 -2 I remember a wierd thing happened wh

Re: can't mke2fs hdb, says already mounted, but it isn't

2009-12-15 Thread Timothy Legg
>> 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

Re: can't mke2fs hdb, says already mounted, but it isn't

2009-12-15 Thread Bob McGowan
Tom H wrote: >> 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 contradic

Re: can't mke2fs hdb, says already mounted, but it isn't

2009-12-15 Thread Tom H
> 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 >

can't mke2fs hdb, says already mounted, but it isn't

2009-12-15 Thread Timothy Legg
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.