Re: [SLE] Can't mount Firewire drive -- solved

From: Michael ONeill (michaelgoneill_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/28/03

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To: Donald Henson <wepin@wepin.com>, "suse-linux-e@suse.com" <suse-linux-e@suse.com>

    --- Donald Henson <wepin@wepin.com> wrote:
    > On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 11:30, Michael ONeill wrote:
    >
    > > --- Donald Henson <wepin@wepin.com> wrote:
    > > > On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 15:51, Michael ONeill
    > wrote:
    > > >
    > > >
    > > > I have two firewire drives running under 8.2.
    > (One
    > > > at a time, not both
    > > > together.) The only problem I had was that I had
    > to
    > > > be root in order to
    > > > unmount it. Did you use YaST2 to configure the
    > > > drives?
    > > >
    > >
    > > no. I used fdisk to partition and then tried to
    > > mount. put entry in fstab but no difference.
    > >
    > > I don't see a module in yast2 for this. where
    > should
    > > I be looking?
    > >
    > > Thanks,
    > >
    > > Michael
    >
    > Look under "System" and then "Partitioner". There's
    > a warning in there
    > about being an expert but I just used it to edit
    > /dev/sda1 to format the
    > hd using the Reiser file system and to specify a
    > mount point. In my
    > case, I used /external for the mount point after
    > creating the directory
    > of course. Seems to work for me but be very careful.
    >
    > Don Henson
    >

    Hey, it worked for me too!

    Perhaps someone knows why it doesn't work with cfdisk
    and mount.

    thanks for solving

    Michael

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    www.oneillaw.com

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