RE: mkfs.xfs Fails

["Quang Nguyen \(Ngo\)" <quang@tapeware.com>]

From: Nathan Scott [mailto:nathans@sgi.com]
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| > Anyway, I ran mkfs.ext2 and mkfs.reiserfs and they both formatted it
fine.
| > Just that mkfs.xfs -f /dev/hdb2 thinks it's busy or in use.
|
| That's very odd -- can you run "strace mkfs.xfs -f /dev/hdb2" and
| send the output?  That will tell us where to start looking in mkfs.
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In one occasion, my program puts back the original /etc/mtab and that
happens to have /dev/hdb2 mounted.  mkfs.xfs is nice enough to verify that I
shouldn't be formatting a mounted partition.  I gdb'ed it and it was
obvious.  Duhh!

Thanks guys,
Quang


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