I just purchased a new Western Digital 'My Passport'. I've done this before and thought I knew what to do, but this one has new, modern features that are causing be problem pain. As delivered, the drive has format type 07 (HPFS/NTFS). When I plug it in, it mounts as 2 partitions. One is called /dev/sda1 and the other is called /dev/sr0. I have succeeded in removing /dev/sda1 using fdisk and bulling thru warning messages about large number of cylinders.
But the /dev/sr0 is being difficult. Both fdisk and cfdisk tell me I have no permission to write. Not surprising given the device name. But I really want to remove it because it automounts with a goofy mountpoint name in /media and I know I will come to regret letting it survive. How? what software utility? Is this one of the x commands that are for experts only? PS yes I'm doing all my work as root. But still no permission to write. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100326001728.ga12...@big.lan.gnu
