Unable to format a partition after swapoff

From: Grzegorz Jablonski (gwj@lech.dmcs.p.lodz.pl)
Date: Wed Jan 26 2000 - 05:10:19 EST


Hello,

I am using dual boot configuration Win95/linux with a shared swap file.
After doing swapoff /dev/hda5 I try to format the partition. However, I
am unable to do it because of some I/O errors. I cannot format it even
after doing several syncs and waiting a few minutes. When I
boot without enabling swap the partition can be formatted normally.
Kernel 2.2.14.

Has anyone encountered this problem ? In 2.2.1 it worked.

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Grzegorz W. Jablonski
Department of Microelectronics and Computer Science
Technical University of Lodz +------------------------------------------
Politechniki 11 |
93-590 Lodz, Poland | Linux - for IQs greater than 95
gwj@dmcs.p.lodz.pl |
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