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Distribution: Fedora 3,4- Ubuntu 6.06 to 8.10, Gentoo and Arch
Posts: 408
Rep:
formating vfat
I want to format my vfat drive to ext3 .
when i write /sbin/mke2fs /dev/hdb7
i get the following message:
mke2fs 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
/dev/hdb7 is mounted; will not make a filesystem here!
then I write: umount -fl /dev/hdb7
then when I write /sbin/mke2fs /dev/hdb7 again I get the same error
then when I unmount hdb7 it says that this driver is not mounted
what s the problem?
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