running FDISK

Juniper34 · 08-11-2003, 05:17 AM

I am currently running XP and slackware, and have the rest of the disk unparitioned. I went to make a partition for FreeBSD and got this error: Warning Re-reading the partition table failure failed with error 16. Device or resource busy. Loading both Operating systems afterwards works fine, it says that the changes will take place after I reboot. And as far as I saw they went fine. Should I be booting from the slack distro disk, or a linux rescue disk to to this? Thanks in advance.

MasterC · 08-11-2003, 05:19 AM

I've only seen that when I have the drive mounted that I'm partitioning, so make sure the drive isn't mounted. Everything **likely** went fine though

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Juniper34 · 08-13-2003, 07:25 PM

Running FDISK while you have your filesystems mounted DID cause errors. Once reparitioned correctly using the FDISK from the distro CD's each installation went well.