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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoregon.edu!ntuix.ntu.ac.sg!raffles.technet.sg!iss.nus.sg!muruga From: muruga@iss.nus.sg (Janakiraman Murugavel) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd Subject: Format Program Date: 7 Sep 1995 03:51:39 GMT Organization: Apple-ISS Research Center, ISS, NUS Lines: 27 Message-ID: <42lq8b$6sp@holodeck.iss.nus.sg> NNTP-Posting-Host: casper.iss.nus.sg X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Hi All, Recently i had a tough time of formatting new hard disk. I think my experience may be useful to u all. When i tried to format /dev/sd1 it given the error message "Warning : Current Disk has mounted parition", but the disk is not at all mounted. I returned the harddisk back to the vendor assuming it's not a new hard disk. The vendor returned hard disk back saying they able to format it and nothing wrong with the disk. When i tried to format it again i got the same message again. After tracing the format program i noticed the error message is displayed after reading "/etc/mtab" file. When i looked into the "/etc/mtab" file i saw entry for "/dev/sd10g", "/dev/sd10h", "/dev/sd11g" but nothing for "/dev/sd1[a-z]". I had suspicious here and removed all the entries which has sd1 in it ( ie /dev/sd10g, /dev/sd10h, /dev/sd11g, etc ). The format program when thru after this. What my suspicion is instead of looking for exact match the format program does the pattern match in the "/etc/mtab" file & hence it failed. Any comments welcome. -Muruga muruga@apple-iss.iss.nus.sg