Re: Reformat Slave HDD - Clarification Please

On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 10:24:23 +0300, Vahis <waxborg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
In article <md0g42l2hth5tfa831a10qih7km47va3bh@xxxxxxx>,
jonah <jonah123@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

do I have to un-mount it first - this book is wittering on about the
kernel getting confused if I do not unmount.

Yes you do. If you're going to reformat a partition, then obviously that
partition must not be mounted .If you're going to reformat/repartition a
whole disk, then none of the disk's existing partitions must be in use
for anything (including swap).

the unmount command example I have is as follows

"umount /media/cdrom"

This makes no sense at all; I apparantly need to unmount a HDD called
"20G Media" this is VERY confusing please clarify the command
parameters to unmount a HDD assuming I need to do so.

I take it the drive is currently connected via a hotplug interface of
some kind (USB?).

Why do you think so?
The OP is talking about a slave, nothing about external.

Vahis

Yeah I was Vahis but I was not absolutely specific about it, niether
was my book, which is why I was confused with the command example I
had which was for removeable not fixed media, sorted it now.
Just got to edit the etc/fstab file as Robert Hull said and I am in
business (I hope).

Ta

Jonah
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