How do I partition a hard drive?
 

Using Yast, I partitioned a blank harddrive as Ext2, and whenever I try and put anything on the disk, it says it failed to write. I know the drive works, its something wrong with some setting. How do I get it to work?

Did you actually create a file system or just the partition? Creating the file system is the same as 'formatting' the disk (disk DOS/Win speak) and must be done after creating the partition.

cheers

Jamie...

Ya, I created the file system.

Did you mount the drive?

SuSE automatically mounted it

As Root user, can you put stuff on the drive?

Yes

What are the permissions of the folder its mounted to?

All three things have read permissions, and user has write permissions.