clive.rothery wrote: > When running partprobe on SLES , the following error occurs. > As the subject says SLES 11 SP2, with a G6 server. The disks are on a cciss > controller. > > Firmware version > > Current Firmware: 2.05 12/16/2010 > > This is the message reported after running a fdsik then partprobe > > WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error 16: Device or > resource > busy. > The kernel still uses the old table. The new table will be used at > the next reboot or after you run partprobe(8) or kpartx(8) > Syncing disks. > > # partprobe > A bug has been detected in GNU Parted. Refer to the web site of parted > http:// > www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html for more information of what could be > useful for bug submitting! Please email a bug report to bug-parted@gnu.org > containing at least the version (2.3) and the following message: Unable to > determine the size and length of /dev/cciss/c0d0_part1.
Thanks for the report. That looks like a problem that has been fixed in newer releases. Can you try using a newer version? The latest is 3.1.
