formating external USB hard drive

[François Patte]

John Summerfied a écrit :

> 
> Unmount the partitions, maybe
> umount /media/usbdisk*
> Repartition it with, for example, fdisk
> Check that some bloody stupid automount thing didn't mount the new
> partitions. Shouldn't be possible, but who knows?

It works.... I quite agree with you for automount.... but, everybody (I
think) has to deal with people who do not understand or can use:

mount /dev/sdc1 /media/mydisk

And if people cannot be root, how could they know that the thing they
have just plugged in is the /dev/sdc1 device?

-- 
François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Université René Descartes
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte