formating external USB hard drive

[Mike McCarty]

François Patte wrote:
> Bonjour,
> 
> I have a USB hard drive and 3 questions:

[snip]

> 3- How to format the external hd, for it has to unmounted before being 
> formated?

Use umount to unmount the partition you are interested in, then you
can format it.

Mike
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