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Old 3 Weeks Ago   #1 (permalink)
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Question RAM Format

Hello all,

I am facing a problem here and I do not know the solution yet.

I have a device that boots from flash, and I need to format the flash and upgrade the software on it on the fly.

Until now, I have created a ramdisk and mounted on RAM, but everytime I try to format the flash using sfdisk I got and error indicating that the device is busy (BLKRRPART: Device or resource busy).

Is there any way to solve this problem?

Thanks in advance.
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You cant format the Flash since its in use.
You should boot from a diffrent device..
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