Re: PARI's E6500 Status.

On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 11:25 -0400, Lamar Owen wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 10:08:58PM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote:
> >
> >> Scratch that about parted.  From dmesg:
> >> program parted is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it to
> >> SG_IO
> 
> >> Throws a 'Bus Error'.
> 
> > That should not be related. The ioctl is deprecated, but still works.
> 
> Well, what I ended up having to do was drop to single user, initalize the
> disklabels with parted, and then partition with fdisk.  Something funky
> going on.

Also note that you can rescan partition tables with

/sbin/blockdev --rereadpt

But if there's still something in use, it'll fail the same way parted
did.  What does fuser say about it?

-- 
  Peter

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