unable to format / mount SSD

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Hello

i have a laptop with a regular 650 gb hitachi fixed disk and a 20 gb intel SSD MAEXC02.

I managed to partition and format it with GParted, but If I try to install opensuse, it fails to mout the SSD.

Installed opensuse on the other fixed disk. Next, if i try to format or mount the SSD wtih the YAST partitioner it returns the following error:

Falure occured during the following action: Formatting partition /dev/sdb1 (22.36 GiB) with ext4

System error code was -3008
/sbin/mke2fs -m4.5 -t ext4 -v ‘/dev/sdb1’:
mke2fs 1.42.12 (29 aug 2014)
/dev/sdb1 is apparantly in use with the system; will not make a filesystem here!

Wich leaves my completely puzzled. Any help greatly appreciated!

Regards, T.

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On 2015-02-07 11:26, topfenbaecker wrote:

>> /dev/sdb1 is apparantly in use with the system; will not make a
>> filesystem here!

That’s the crucial message. It is apparently already mounted. Thus run
“mount” in a terminal to find out where.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.

(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))

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oddly enough, there’s no sdbin the output of mount:

sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
devtmpfs on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,size=4052824k,nr_inodes=1013206,mode=755)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,mode=755)
tmpfs on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=755)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,xattr,release_agent=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-cgroups-agent,name=systemd)
pstore on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpu,cpuacct)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/memory type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,memory)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/devices type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls,net_prio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls,net_prio)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,perf_event)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/hugetlb type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,hugetlb)
/dev/sda5 on / type btrfs (rw,relatime,space_cache)
systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=28,pgrp=1,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct)
mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,relatime)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime)
hugetlbfs on /dev/hugepages type hugetlbfs (rw,relatime)
/dev/sda5 on /.snapshots type btrfs (rw,relatime,space_cache)
/dev/sda5 on /var/tmp type btrfs (rw,relatime,space_cache)
/dev/sda5 on /var/spool type btrfs (rw,relatime,space_cache)
/dev/sda5 on /var/opt type btrfs (rw,relatime,space_cache)
/dev/sda5 on /var/log type btrfs (rw,relatime,space_cache)
/dev/sda5 on /var/lib/pgsql type btrfs (rw,relatime,space_cache)
/dev/sda5 on /var/lib/named type btrfs (rw,relatime,space_cache)
/dev/sda5 on /var/lib/mailman type btrfs (rw,relatime,space_cache)
/dev/sda5 on /var/crash type btrfs (rw,relatime,space_cache)
/dev/sda5 on /usr/local type btrfs (rw,relatime,space_cache)
/dev/sda5 on /tmp type btrfs (rw,relatime,space_cache)
/dev/sda5 on /srv type btrfs (rw,relatime,space_cache)
/dev/sda5 on /opt type btrfs (rw,relatime,space_cache)
/dev/sda5 on /boot/grub2/x86_64-efi type btrfs (rw,relatime,space_cache)
/dev/sda5 on /boot/grub2/i386-pc type btrfs (rw,relatime,space_cache)
/dev/sda3 on /home type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,relatime)
gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=100)

which leves me even more puzzled