Comments on: Backtrack 4 – USB/Persistent Changes/Nessus 4.02 http://www.infosecramblings.com ramblings on various information security topics Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:09:24 +0000 hourly 1 By: kriggins http://www.infosecramblings.com/backtrack/backtrack-4-%e2%80%93-usbpersistent-changesnessus-4-02/#comment-18490 kriggins Fri, 21 May 2010 01:50:03 +0000 http://www.infosecramblings.com/?page_id=1727#comment-18490 Hi Frank, Two things come to mind: 1) You are trying to format the partition that you have booted from. Make sure that you have the correct target drive device name. 2) The target drive already had a filesystem on it that got mounted somehow. I have seen this happen before. You should be able to dismount the filesystem using umount. Kevin Hi Frank,

Two things come to mind:
1) You are trying to format the partition that you have booted from. Make sure that you have the correct target drive device name.
2) The target drive already had a filesystem on it that got mounted somehow. I have seen this happen before. You should be able to dismount the filesystem using umount.

Kevin

]]> By: Frank http://www.infosecramblings.com/backtrack/backtrack-4-%e2%80%93-usbpersistent-changesnessus-4-02/#comment-17979 Frank Thu, 13 May 2010 04:31:50 +0000 http://www.infosecramblings.com/?page_id=1727#comment-17979 When I try to format the sdb1 partition with the command mkfs.vfat -F 32 -n BT4 /dev/sdb1 It returns mkfs.vfat: /dev/sdb1 contains a mounted file system. I'm pretty sure because of this, it is not formatting the partition, which is screwing up my install. Any solutions? When I try to format the sdb1 partition with the command
mkfs.vfat -F 32 -n BT4 /dev/sdb1

It returns
mkfs.vfat: /dev/sdb1 contains a mounted file system.

I'm pretty sure because of this, it is not formatting the partition, which is screwing up my install. Any solutions?

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