Create Primary Partition #1 (ext3, 218.45 GiB) on /dev/hdb    ( ERROR ) 
      
   create empty partition    ( SUCCES ) 
      
  path: /dev/hdb1
start: 63
end: 458109539
size: 218.44 GiB 
   set partitiontype    ( SUCCES ) 
   create new ext3 filesystem    ( ERROR ) 
      
  mkfs.ext3 /dev/hdb1 
      
  mke2fs 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
/dev/hdb1 is apparently in use by the system; will not make a filesystem here!