[101849] in RedHat Linux List
fdisk/partition hassles
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lance Cummings)
Sun Nov 29 22:38:07 1998
From: "Lance Cummings" <lance@tky3.3web.ne.jp>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 12:36:59 +0900
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Savvy Listonians,
I have a 9.1 gb SCIS I'm using as drive 3. The drive has 1106 cylinders.
There is an extended to cylinder 997. I'd like to park Linux swap and
/usr/local at the end of this drive as primaries. But using Linux fdisk, I
am unable to properly create a Linux swap partition out there. What
happens is that everything is okay up to actually writing the partition
table, at which time I get:
Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table. Device busy for revalidation
(usage=2)
Syncing disks
Re-read table failed with error 16: Device or resource busy. Reboot
system to ensure partition table is updated.
Okay. But after the reboot, the partition is changed from type Linux
swap to type 'unknown.' While I get the same error message creating a
Linux native partition, the partition appears to be valid after a reboot.
Only swap is changed.
Ideas? (BusLogic BT-948 Ultra Wide -- int 13h extensions enabled)
Also, this problem manifests itself regardless of whether I go over or
stay under the 1024 cylinder mark with that swap partition -- so it does
not appear to be a 1024-class problem.
Lance
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