If you have any partition on /dev/hda mounted, when you run fdisk, you'll
need to unmount them and re-fdisk, or reboot. (Watch carefully after the
fdisk - does it tell you to reboot?)
Have you tried rebooting after the fdisk?
-Eric
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Quang Nguyen (Ngo) wrote:
> I'm using mkfs.xfs version 1.3.13 on Mandrake 8.1. In some occasions,
> mkfs.xfs fails to format my partition, even when I give it the -f flag. The
> actually command used is: mkfs.xfs -f /dev/hda2
>
> It thinks the partition is busy, but in fact it's not. I just fdisked. How
> could it be busy or in used? /proc/mounts and /etc/mtab don't show
> /dev/hda2.
>
> Any suggestions or ideas? Maybe I'm doing wrong?
>
> Thanks,
> Quang
>
>
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