FC5 locks solid after running parted

[Rex Dieter]

Chris Allen wrote:

> 
> 
> On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 11:13:17AM -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> Chris Allen wrote:
>> 
>> > The script below locks the machine solid about 40% of the time that I
>> > run it.
>> ...
>> > Ideas anyone??
>> > 
>> > 
>> > #!/bin/bash
>> > for i in b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q
>> > do
>> > parted -s /dev/sd$i rm 1
>> + sync; sleep 2;
>> > parted -s /dev/sd$i mkpart primary ext2 0 250GB
>> + sync; sleep 2;
>> > done
>> 
> 
> Thanks, but can you explain why that works, and why
> sleep 2 rather than 1 or 3?

I just picked a number to emulate the case where you said it worked if you
typed it by hand...  1 or 3 would probably work too.  (:

-- Rex