Thanks Tony,
I still have the problem. This is what I did.
I changed /usr to Backup Mandrake and the second partition to Backup
Win2000.
There seems to be a problem because instead of partitions I found these two
new items in my hda listed in /files along with the /usr that I had changed.
On my desktop there is a icon identified as Hard Disc (hdc1) (not mounted
When I activate this icon I get the following message:
Error-kio-devices-mounthelper
Mount: wrong fs type
bad option,
bad superblock on /dev/hdc1.
or too many mounts on file system
Owen
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On Monday 12 January 2004 01:08 am, you wrote:
Owen,
You have a /usr on your system at the moment. It thinks you are changing
the config of your system and is just trying to help. Call the partition
/backup or something else and you will be fine.
Tony.
-Original Message-
From: Owen Berio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 5:06 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Formating External Hard Drive
(I'm Using Mandrake 9.1
I have removed the hard drive from it's USB enclosure and temp.
enstalled it
in my dedicated Mandrake box as a second HD
I want to partition it into two portions.
One portion for backing up WIN 2000 on a MS dedicated box.
The second portion for backing up my Mandrake material.
The Mandrake Control Center identifies the HD as hdc. My primary HD is
identified as hda.
When I go to Mount Points and Disk Drake I set the partition to 5225 MB
which
is less than half of the hard drive capacity.
I set the file system to FAT 32.
The mount point is set to /usr
And click O.K.
A new Disk Drake menue says that Directory /usr already contains data
(share,
bin, sbin, .)
It then gives me the option of moving files to the new position or
hiding
files.
How can this be? As far as I know the drive has never been formatted. I
sure
don't want to screw up my Mandrake system so this is where I get
stonewalled.
Help! All I want to do is prepare half the Disk for Mandrake back up and
the
other half for MS back up.
Owen
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