[Discuss] memory stick issue

[dan moylan]

dan ritter wrote:
> dan moylan wrote:
>> dan bitter wrote:
>>> dan moylan wrote:
>>>>
>>>> running fc36 on lenevo thinkpad T460

>>>> moylan cmd[1051] sudo mke2fs -text4 -LBCKUP1n /dev/sdb
>>>> [sudo] password for moylan:
>>           .
>>           .
>>           .
>>
>>> First, make sure you don't have an entry for /dev/sdb or for
>>> /run/media/moylan/BCKUP1n in your /etc/fstab.
>>> Then:
>>> wipefs /dev/sdb
>>> read the output and do the wipefs -o that it suggests.
>>> Then redo the mkfs.
>>
>> moylan cmd[1059] vi /etc/fstab
>> (all good)
>> moylan cmd[1075] sudo wipefs /dev/sdb
>> DEVICE OFFSET TYPE UUID                                 LABEL
>> sdb    0x438  ext4 7e40cd11-4989-4274-8e56-6b6f96a3d4d2 BCKUP1n
>>
>> hmmm -- what now?

> wipefs -o 0x438 /dev/sdb
> Then go ahead and make new filesystem.

sigh ... surely i never typed "rm /dev/sdb" but nonetheless
it disappeared.  i recreated it and tried wipefs.  my various
commands are in the b1 file shown here:

# bin/b1
# sudo mknod -m660 /dev/sdb b 8 0
# sudo chown root.disk /dev/sdb
  ls -l /dev/sd*
# sudo mke2fs -text4 -LBCKUP1n /dev/sdb
# sudo mount -text4 /dev/sdb /run/media/moylan/BCKUP1n
  sudo wipefs -o 0x438 /dev/sdb

moylan cmd[1232] b1
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 0 Sep  3 13:38 /dev/sda
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 1 Sep  3 13:38 /dev/sda1
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 2 Sep  3 13:38 /dev/sda2
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 3 Sep  3 13:38 /dev/sda3
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 0 Sep  5 19:41 /dev/sdb
wipefs: error: /dev/sdb: probing initialization failed:
     Device or resource busy

df shows no sdb.  how can it be busy?  did i somehow
miscreate it?

ole dan

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