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Old 04-08-2007, 08:28 AM   #1
J_angel2000
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New Partition on External Hard Drive

Hi everybody!!

I first came here when I installed Suse Linux on my PC 4 years ago. It was quite difficult to me so I gave up. Now I have Ubuntu Linux and it's going to substitute my Windows definitively

Here is my question:

I have an external Hard Drive and I want to format it in ext3. The problem is that when Gparted starts doing it my Ubuntu quickly recognise the new (not ended) partition and mount it!! So Gparted generates an error "cannot partition it if mounted". How can I solve it? How force the unmount?

Thanks!!!
 
Old 04-08-2007, 09:15 AM   #2
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Just find the icon for the drive (it should be on the Desktop, I think), right click it, and select "unmount"
 
  


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