Most often, you need to perform a reboot when making changes to partition tables. I believe that fdisk even warns you of this.
--- Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Prior to making major updates to my system, I always clone my running > system to a spare partition and verify that it boots and runs. Most > of the time this goes without a hitch, but occasionally I have > difficulty reformatting the spare partitions. I wonder if anyone > knows why. > > Here''s the setup (my disk controllers are reversed hda&b are cdrom, > hdc&d are disk > /dev/hdd9 current boot partition (ext3) > /dev/hdd10 current / partition (ext3) ca. 4.4gig > /dev/hdd7 spare boot partition > /dev/hdd8 spare /partition ca. 4.3 gig > other bootable partitions on /dev/hdc > > I start out by formatting the spares > mke2fs -j /dev/hdd8 no problem > mke2fs -j /dev/hdd7 fails writing superblock (something about a short > write) > much screwing around including badblock tests on hdd7 (aok) > all attempts fail > reboot and the problem disappears - hdd7 formats ok > clone completed and hdd7/8 made bootable (fstab altered, lilo > updated) > new clone boots and runs ok > > Any clue why sometimes I can't remake a fs over the top of an existing > one? ===== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com . __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
