On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 23:53 +0700, Amrit Angsusingh wrote: > /dev/hdd1 /mnt/idedisk1 auto amconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 > > which appeared to be the read only device. I cannot umount this device and > mount it to /dev/hdd1 ext3 . I would like to use this HDD to store the > nackup data. Does any one tell me how to do this? A quick guess: You weren't the root user when you tried to unmount it. Try "su -" to become root before unmounting it. Then you can go about partitioning/formatting it, if you need to. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
