[RHEL5] The fdisk utility refuses to create partition tables for newly added disks
Issue
- When partitioning a newly added disk device,
fdisk
will fail when writing the partition table due to 'Device or resource busy' the changes to the table will never be written.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8
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