Getting error: device is apparently in use by the system; will not make a filesystem here!
Issue
- When trying to format the partition, it fails with error message:
/dev/sdc1 is apparently in use by the system; will not make a filesystem here!
#mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdc1
mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)
/dev/sdc1 is apparently in use by the system; will not make a filesystem here!
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- EXT3
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