"busy" disk trouble

[ronald]

Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> I wonder if anybody else have seen something like that.
> 
...
> #  mke2fs -j /dev/sdb1
> mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)
> /dev/sdb1 is apparently in use by the system; will not make a
> filesystem here!
> 
> ??? Neither fuser, nor lsof, nor searches for anything else reveal
> why /dev/sdb1 could be "in use".  OK, lets try to force the issue
> 
> # mke2fs -F -j /dev/sdb1
> mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)
> /dev/sdb1 is apparently in use by the system; mke2fs forced anyway.
> /dev/sdb1: Device or resource busy while setting up superblock

take a look at
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2006-September/msg02311.html

the last part !

-- 
    ronald