Re: gparted -- Turn Off Automount of USB Device

2007-04-05 Thread Matt Miller
> Is there some other way to properly erase the disk so I can start from > scratch and lay down a new filesystem? Since neither gparted, not parted, nor fdisk seemed to be able to do the job, I used dd: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=8192 After that I used parted to create a new disk label, and

Re: gparted -- Turn Off Automount of USB Device

2007-04-05 Thread Matt Miller
> > every time I create a new partition the system mounts the partition > > immediately, and then gparted complains that it can't create the > > filesystem because the partition is mounted. > > probably some nautilus configuration, if you use GNOME I used gnome-volume-properties to turn off all th

Re: gparted -- Turn Off Automount of USB Device

2007-04-04 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On 4/5/07, Matt Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm using gparted to partition and lay down a filesystem on a hard drive connected externally via a USB adapter. The problem is every time I create a new partition the system mounts the partition immediately, and then gparted complains that it c

gparted -- Turn Off Automount of USB Device

2007-04-04 Thread Matt Miller
I'm using gparted to partition and lay down a filesystem on a hard drive connected externally via a USB adapter. The problem is every time I create a new partition the system mounts the partition immediately, and then gparted complains that it can't create the filesystem because the partition is