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swingarm l33t
Joined: 08 Jun 2002 Posts: 627 Location: Northern Colorado
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Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 2:12 am Post subject: Problem Formatting Partitions |
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Well after being gone for a while with Linux I decided to get back into it but it looks like I've forgotten more stuff then I thought.
I'm doing the initial install. I've got my partitions made but whenever I try to mkfs.ext2 /dev/sdb1 or mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb3 I get the error "/dev/sbx is apparently in use by the system; will not make a filesystem here." I double checked that those are the correct partitions.
I've tried searching these forums with no luck |
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Jaglover Watchman
Joined: 29 May 2005 Posts: 8291 Location: Saint Amant, Acadiana
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swingarm l33t
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Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 3:38 am Post subject: |
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Done. |
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swingarm l33t
Joined: 08 Jun 2002 Posts: 627 Location: Northern Colorado
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Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 4:49 am Post subject: |
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Jaglover wrote: | Not sure what's going on there, but you could run to make sure your drives are ordered the way you expect them to be. |
Well to be a little more detailed I'm following the X86 handbook for doing a Gentoo Install, I'm at the Installing Filesystem section and I'm getting the "Filesystem in use" error. I don't know why I'm getting it but I want to get past it.
Fdisk -l verifies that I'm using the correct partitions on the correct disk. |
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Clad in Sky l33t
Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 887 Location: Germany
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Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 5:56 am Post subject: |
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Did you already mount those partitions (or, if you're installing from some live environment, were they automatically mounted)?
Try "mount" without any parameters to see if they're mounted. _________________ Kali Ma
Now it's autumn of the aeons
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swingarm l33t
Joined: 08 Jun 2002 Posts: 627 Location: Northern Colorado
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Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 6:38 am Post subject: |
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rootfs on / type rootfs
proc on /proc type proc
udev on /dev type devtmpfs
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts
sysfs on /sys type sysfs
/dev/sr0 on /mnt/cdrom type iso9660
/dev/loop0 on /mnt/livecd type squashfs
/dev/sr0 on /mnt/cdrom type iso9660
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs
shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs
tmpfs on /mnt/livecd/lib/firmware type tmpfs
tmpfs on /mnt/livecd/usr/portage type tmpfs
Don't see the sdb mount. |
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Clad in Sky l33t
Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 887 Location: Germany
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Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 7:37 am Post subject: |
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Very strange.
Do you access /dev/sdb with any other programme, like another instance of fdisk or gparted or something? That's all the ideas I have. _________________ Kali Ma
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Goverp Veteran
Joined: 07 Mar 2007 Posts: 1992
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Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 8:07 am Post subject: |
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Someone on overclockers had a similar problem that turned out to be due to reusing a partition that had once been part of a RAID array. _________________ Greybeard |
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swingarm l33t
Joined: 08 Jun 2002 Posts: 627 Location: Northern Colorado
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Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 9:53 am Post subject: |
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Clad in Sky wrote: | Very strange.
Do you access /dev/sdb with any other programme, like another instance of fdisk or gparted or something? That's all the ideas I have. |
The programs fdisk and parted do show sdb1, sdb2, and sdb3. |
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Clad in Sky l33t
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Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 10:13 am Post subject: |
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What I meant was if you were still running fdisk or gparted (in another terminal etc.) while trying to format the partitions. _________________ Kali Ma
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swingarm l33t
Joined: 08 Jun 2002 Posts: 627 Location: Northern Colorado
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Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 12:46 pm Post subject: |
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Ok, on a hunch I got rid of my Intel Rapid Storage Technology cache raid partition on the sdb drive and.....
It worked!! Just hope I can reinstall it after I partition the hard drive. |
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