FC5 locks solid after running parted
Rex Dieter
rdieter at math.unl.edu
Mon Jun 26 17:15:07 UTC 2006
Chris Allen wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 11:13:17AM -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> Chris Allen wrote:
>>
>> > The script below locks the machine solid about 40% of the time that I
>> > run it.
>> ...
>> > Ideas anyone??
>> >
>> >
>> > #!/bin/bash
>> > for i in b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q
>> > do
>> > parted -s /dev/sd$i rm 1
>> + sync; sleep 2;
>> > parted -s /dev/sd$i mkpart primary ext2 0 250GB
>> + sync; sleep 2;
>> > done
>>
>
> Thanks, but can you explain why that works, and why
> sleep 2 rather than 1 or 3?
I just picked a number to emulate the case where you said it worked if you
typed it by hand... 1 or 3 would probably work too. (:
-- Rex
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