> 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?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/u3-tool/files/ WAG: you might be able to add a udev rule to mount that partition as an rw /dev/hdX. -- 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/6d4219cc1003251740j247cfcb1we8cd66674229e...@mail.gmail.com
