Bob Goodwin wrote:
Now I'm in deeper trouble!
I thought I would simply use fdisk to rewrite the partition on /dev/sdb which it happily did. But now when I do mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdb1 it protests that "/dev/sdb1 is apparently in use by the system; will not make a filesystem here!"
umount /dev/sdb1 says it's not mounted?
Now I'm stuck. The simplest thing would be to reinstall the system but bandwidth for updates is killing me. Wildblue is a satellite service and I'm limited to 17 Gigs/30 days. I hate to keep burning up my bw.
How can I access /dev/sdb1. I have no rescue disk, installed from the live cd.
Bob
The reason it shows as being in use is because you have an active logical group on it. You have to deactivate VolGroup01/LogVol02 before you can do anything else with /dev/sdb1. You can use Logical Volume Management to do this as well.
Mikkel