linux paritition error

[Emil Soleyman-Zomalan]

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I had a spare DOS partition lying around gathering dust and so I
wanted to partition to linux's ext2. Thw first thing I did was to
launch fdisk and delete the old partition (since I don't need those 
files). I then added the a linux one in place of it and tried to
write to the table, but I receive the following error message:


Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
Syncing disks.
Re-read table failed with error 16: Device or resource busy
Reboot your system to ensure the partition table is updated.


I have Debian booting from /dev/hda3 and the partition I am trying
to make work is /dev/hda1.

Does anyone have an idea of how to go about fixing it?

I appreciate any help!

Emil Soleyman-Zomalan



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Re: linux paritition error

[homega]

Emil Soleyman-Zomalan dixit:
~ 
~  Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
~  Syncing disks.
~  Re-read table failed with error 16: Device or resource busy
   
~  Reboot your system to ensure the partition table is updated.
~  
~  I have Debian booting from /dev/hda3 and the partition I am trying
~  to make work is /dev/hda1.

May be it was mounted and you have to unmount it first?

Regards

Horacio
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