inappropriate ioctl for device - When attempting to umount and resize root and dev file systems in rescue mode

Solution Verified - Updated -

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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