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fdisk questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Borg)
Thu Nov 7 17:29:17 1996
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 13:10:44 -0800
From: Borg <"vladimip "@iceonline.com>
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howdy,
I re-sized several former vfat partitions, /dev/hdb3
and /dev/hdb4, to be mkfs'ed as ext2 and swap. I get this:
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 1 203 409216+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hdb2 204 204 512 622944 83 Linux native
/dev/hdb3 513 513 537 50400 83 Linux native
/dev/hdb4 538 538 621 169344 83 Linux native
Command (m for help): v
62 unallocated sectors
Why are they unallocated? How many KB is in one sector?
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Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered!
Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
(Reboot to ensure the partition table has been updated.)
Syncing disks.
Re-read table failed with error 16: Device or resource busy.
Reboot your system to ensure the partition table is updated.
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Why was it busy? I 'umounted' them before repartitioning.
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