How to mount external usb drive as ext3?

I'm on CentOS 4 kernel 2.6.9.

I have a 400Gb external usb hard drive which I intend to use for
backups. The drive is formatted ext3. I have previously used an usb
dongle formatted as fat32, which is why I believe there is an old
entry in /etc/fstab which says /dev/sda1 is to be mounted as vfat.
Both drives are automagitally mounted on insert.

What should I do to make the usb hard drive's file system be
recognized as ext3 while preserving the usb dongle's file system be
recognized as vfat?

# fdisk -l
[...]
Disk /dev/sda: 400.0 GB, 400088457216 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48641 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 48641 390708801 83 Linux

# grep /media/usbdisk /etc/fstab
/dev/sda1 /media/usbdisk vfat
pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0

Thanks.

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Serman D.

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