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can't open /dev/sda3 exclusively
Hi, please help!!!

I'm installing an openSUSE 10.3 into a computer, after creating the following partitions:

Primay Partition
swap
/
LVM(volume manager) - /dev/sda3
/opt, /var, /tmp, /usr, /local

when i tried to continue installing, after creating the partitions
i am prompted with the following failure:

Quote:
Failure occurred during following action
creating volume group system from /dev/sda3
System error code was -4000
echo y | pvcreate -ff -Ma /dev/sda3:
can't open /dev/sda3 exclusively. Mounted filesystem?
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