I want to change the filesystem of a partition /dev/sda5. Then I select ext4 or ReiserFs. This is also shown correctly in the display. THe formatting of the partition always fails. I can press to save the new fstab. However the file system is always set to ext2. And it then fails to rewrite the boot manager. I have written a separate bug report for this.
Is this during installation? If so, which iso image is being used?
CC: (none) => davidwhodgins
This is with an already installed Mageia 2 x86_64 from the DVD .
Bug confirmed. I have now recreated the problem with format failed, but it isn't a bug in diskdrake. It's either in util-linux or the kernel. [root@x2 ~]# grep sda9 /proc/mounts /dev/sda9 /test reiserfs rw,noatime,notail,user_xattr 0 0 [root@x2 ~]# umount /dev/sda9 [root@x2 ~]# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda9 mke2fs 1.42.2 (27-Mar-2012) /dev/sda9 is apparently in use by the system; will not make a filesystem here! [root@x2 ~]# grep sda9 /proc/mounts [root@x2 ~]# From uname -a 3.3.6-desktop-2.mga2 Same thing happens with 3.3.8. Can someone from the bugsquad assign this to the util-linux maintainer.
Source RPM: (none) => util-linux-2.21.1-1.mga2.src.rpm
More info, and why I didn't see it before ... [root@x2 ~]# grep sda9 /proc/mounts /dev/sda9 /test ext3 rw,relatime,errors=continue,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0 [root@x2 ~]# umount /dev/sda9 [root@x2 ~]# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda9 mke2fs 1.42.2 (27-Mar-2012) Discarding device blocks: done Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Block size=4096 (log=2) Fragment size=4096 (log=2) Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks 325760 inodes, 1301834 blocks 65091 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=0 Maximum filesystem blocks=1333788672 40 block groups 32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group 8144 inodes per group Superblock backups stored on blocks: 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736 Allocating group tables: done Writing inode tables: done Creating journal (32768 blocks): done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done Only seems to be a problem umounting reiserfs filesystems.
Changing the summary to reflect the problem.
Summary: drakdisk fails to change the file system => umount of resierfs filesystem doesn't free device
Summary: umount of resierfs filesystem doesn't free device => umount of Reiser filesystem doesn't free device
duplicate of bug 6844 ?
(In reply to Manuel Hiebel from comment #6) > duplicate of bug 6844 ? likely *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 6844 ***
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDCC: (none) => stormiResolution: (none) => DUPLICATE