secondary hard drive issues

mygeeknc

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Jan 31, 2013
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I took a 2TB drive out of a XenServer disk and attached it to our newly installed PVE 3.1 server. I went in a created a new partition to use the entire drive and then went to format with mkfs.ext4. Every time I try to format the drive, I get this error: "/dev/sdb1 is apparently in use by the system; will not make a filesystem here!"

Has anyone seen this before?
 

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