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