Mount added drive -
Mikkel L. Ellertson
mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Thu Feb 26 19:53:16 UTC 2009
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
--
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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