syntax error at abc.pl line 10, near "$h ("

Perl language have bit different mechanism when dealing with errors. Some points you should know before debugging errors.

1)Always use shebang statement with  -w option as shown below.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

2)Always use strict and warnings package to report all syntax errors.

use strict;

use warnings;

When you get above error do not just check error on the given line try to check before and after the line of error report. This tip will resolve most of your errors like missing closing brace "}", sentence termination like ";", etc.

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Can't find string terminator "EOF " anywhere before EOF at test.pl line 21.

This issue will come when you are using EOF or EOM string to send multiple line to a perl print statement or a command. Just have look at below code

I have a file descriptor which will take input from a string as shown below.

printf FD1 "this my first line";

This will work with out any issue, but when you want to send multiple lines as shown below we have to use PERL here-docs as shown below.

printf FD1 << EOM;
statement1
statement2
EOM

other than this syntax, if you give any other thing it will fail. Observe that there is no double quotes before or after EOM and there is a ; colon after first EOM. We even have to remember that there should not be any space between << and EOM. Hope this helps some one who did this mistake.

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Can't open /dev/sdb1 exclusively. Mounted filesystem?

This is an issue we will get for many reasons, one reason we get this error is when we try to use the partition which is already mounted or used in your machine. This occurs some times due to LVM which is not properly implemented

If you fee this is new partition and want to unlock the file from kernel follow below steps

Step1: Check what are the partitions known to the kernel by using proc file system as shown bleow

[root@gnani surendra]# cat /proc/partitions
major minor  #blocks  name

   8        0    8388608 sda
   8        1    5120000 sda1
   8        2    1024000 sda2
   8        3    2240906 sda3
   8       16    8388608 sdb
   8       17     112423 sdb1
   8       18     112455 sdb2
   8       19     112455 sdb3
 253        0     112423 dm-0
 253        1     112455 dm-1
 253        2     112455 dm-2

Step2: Check if your required partition is in the list or not? If yes, then try to check status of that disk by using dmsetup command as shown below

[root@gnani surendra]# dmsetup status

sdb3: 0 224910 linear

sdb2: 0 224910 linear

sdb1: 0 224847 linear

Step3: If you see your desired partition, try to unlink it from the kernel

dmsetup remove sdb1

Now try to use your partition and see if you still have issue. Hope this helps someone in need.

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