On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 09:56:52PM +0000, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > You can't go back and use the partitioner if the disk is already > in use in some way: fails to write to disk.
should only happen on ide disks, isn't it?
Did you mean the following error message from fdisk?
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.
Syncing disks.
> e.g. if we create and mount swap space, then go back to create/edit
> an unrelated partition, leaving fdisk it fails.
> We need to handle this in some way (just warn / explain to user?)
yes, of course. We need a lot of more user-friendly error messages. But
it's very hard to capture the output from the userland binaries and
print a good and detailed error message (with extactly the happend
problem) to the user.
Thanks
Thorsten
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