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How to disable automount in linux (Re-reading the partition table failed with error 16)

Imagine you’re repartitioning a disk and when you quit fdisk writing the new partition table automount tries to mount new partitions. So instead of refreshed disk ready for newfs you get this warning:

WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error 16: Device or resource busy.
The kernel still uses the old…

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