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Old 10-30-2009, 03:09 PM   #1
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Formating the flash device on the fly


Hello all,

I am facing a problem here and I do not know the solution yet.

I have an appliance that boots from flash, and I need to format the flash and upgrade the software on the fly. That is the only storage device on the appliance.

Until now, I have created a ramdisk and mounted on RAM, but everytime I try to format the flash using sfdisk I got and error indicating that the device is busy (BLKRRPART: Device or resource busy).

Is there any way to solve this problem?

Thanks in advance,

Sergio Prado
São Paulo, Brazil
 
Old 10-31-2009, 07:59 AM   #2
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