inappropriate ioctl for device - When attempting to umount and resize root and dev file systems in rescue mode
Issue
- Customer encounters the following error when attempting to unmount and resize the root filesystem under rescue mode.
inappropriate ioctl for device
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
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