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