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Hay, I just got another hard drive and wanted to use it as storage only, buy I cannot seem to format the thing correctly. I went to 'Harddrake" (mandrake 10.0), selected the hard drive and formatted it as Journalised FS: ext3 with the mount point as: file:/mnt/hdII. The problem is that all of my file:/ data is there.......? In addition, I am not able to put anything on the drive: I am told "access denied."
Any ideas on whether or not I formatted it correctly. Oh, yes, also.....any thoughts on the mount location? ( file:/mnt/hdII)
Humm....I am really sorry about this, but I am a bit lost.
You are asking about the output of the format disk, no? If this is the case, well, using Harddrake, it just said......something will be written to disk, and that was it.
With respect to the mount point, I just typed in: fiile:/mnt/hdII. I can see the Hard Disc icon on my desktop, if that will help.
Yup, in order to open harddrake I needed to enter the su password. I was thinking that this would be a matter of just formatting the drive and that was it....but I am stumped.
Humm....delete all that system file, eh...? I'll not try that one again soon.
With respect to the mount, Mandrake has "harddrake" all that you do is enter su password, select the device that you want to break and then hit configure. I selected the second hard drive and just typed in file:/mnt/hdb. After that, it said that it would be writing the data to disk. Oh, yes, the format too, you are given several options: Journalised FS: ext3 and some other...Fat32...
I am sorry, I am a bit new at this.....I guess I do not quiet know what you are asking for, that or how to get it. Come to think of it, I am just plan lost.
Sorry about that.
By mount point, do you mean what devices I have mounted and where?
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