Cannot use fourth IDE HDD with FC3 ?

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Tue Feb 21 01:24:53 UTC 2006


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.

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