formating external USB hard drive

[Jeff Vian]

On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 10:28 +0100, François Patte wrote:
> 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?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
dmesg

However, if the device does not automount then they MUST be able to
access the system as root to either mount it directly or to put an entry
in /etc/fstab so users can mount it.




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> François Patte
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> Université René Descartes
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