partprobe error

[Surendra Kumar]

On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Pritam Khedekar
<pritamkhedekarr at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>

it is must patition table update for  format any partion.
if this error is comming
 Warning: WARNING: the kernel failed to re-read the partition table on
/dev/sda (Device or resource busy).  As a result, it may not reflect all of
your changes until after reboot.

so now must restart machine

Thanks



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>    I m getting this Error while making file system in a Partition
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x7a55a2e0
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>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *           1       10199    81923436    7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda2           10200       60802   406462038    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/sda5           10200       26772   133122591    7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda6           26773       43345   133122591    7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda7           43346       43983     5120000   83  Linux
> /dev/sda8           43983       45258    10240000   83  Linux
> /dev/sda9           45258       45896     5120000   83  Linux
> /dev/sda10          45896       46533     5120000   83  Linux
> /dev/sda11          46533       47171     5120000   83  Linux
> /dev/sda12          47171       47808     5120000   83  Linux
> /dev/sda13          47808       48446     5120000   83  Linux
> /dev/sda14          48446       48968     4194304   82  Linux swap /
> Solaris
> /dev/sda15          48968       49576     4887476+  83  Linux
> [root at HOME /]# partprobe -s /dev/sda
> Warning: WARNING: the kernel failed to re-read the partition table on
> /dev/sda (Device or resource busy).  As a result, it may not reflect all of
> your changes until after reboot.
> [root at HOME /]# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda15
> mke2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
> Could not stat /dev/sda15 --- No such file or directory
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> Thanks & Regards,****
> Pritam Khedekar | Sr. Engineer - Technical,
> Vistaas Digital Media Pvt. Ltd. | Mumbai
> Tel: + 91 90 22 25 54 20
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