[RHEL5] The fdisk utility refuses to create partition tables for newly added disks

Solution Verified - Updated -

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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