James B. Byrne wrote:
On Mon, August 29, 2011 10:46, James B. Byrne wrote:
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However, I am still concerned about what the rest of this message means and its implications:
Warning: WARNING: the kernel failed to re-read the partition table on /dev/sda (Device or resource busy). As a result, it may not reflect all of your changes until after reboot.
I have tried using partprobe and /sbin/blockdev -rereadpt /dev/sda and both report that the device /dev/sda/ is busy. Is this an artifact of using of SATA style disks or has something changed between CentOS-5.6 and CentOS-6.0 that specifically relates to this problem? On 5.6 I can create new lvms, mount and use them without a reboot. On 6.0 I cannot, for the moment at least, discover how this is done.
Were you doing it on /dev/sda?! If so, that was a *very* Bad Idea, since /dev/sda is normally your /boot and /; of *course* it's busy, it's your o/s, and doesn't want to be repartitioned, esp. while running.
mark