external HDD 2685

Michael Heiming

Hello Michael, running fsck as above gives Parbreastiondev-hda3 is mounted with write permissions, cannot check it. Here is the "mount" output:dev-hda3 on type reiserfs (ro) proc onproc type proc (rw) tmpfs ondev-shm type tmpfs (rw) devpts ondev-pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5)dev-hda1 onwindows-C type ntfs (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,gid=100,umask=0002,nls=utf8)dev-hdd onmedia-cdrecorder type subfsdev-hdc onmedia-dvd type subfsdev-fd0 onmedia-floppy type subfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=floppyfss,procuid)dev-sda5 onmnt-iomega type ext2 (rw)dev-sda1 onwindows-D type vfat usbfs onproc-bus-usb type usbfs (rw)dev-sdb4 onmnt-zip type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) ---------------------------------------------------- Here is the present fstab:dev-hda1 windows-C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0dev-hda2 swap swap pri=42 0 0 devpts dev-pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 proc proc proc defaults 0 0 usbfs proc-bus-usb usbfs noauto 0 0 sysfs sys sysfs noauto 0 0dev-cdrecordermedia-cdrecorder subfs dev-dvd media-dvd subfs dev-fd0 media-floppy subfs fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0dev-sda5 mnt-iomega ext2 defaults 1 2 ####-dev-sda1 mnt-iomega auto defaults,users,noauto 0 0 ##-dev-sda5 mnt-iomega subfs rw,users 0 0dev-sda1 windows-C vfat dev-hda3 reiserfs defaults 1 1

dev-sdb4 mnt-zip vfat noauto,users 0 0 ---------------------------------------------------------- I have specified ext2 because I wasn't sure if ext3 is recognized; I have never even seen this before. Many thanks for your interest. Ivan.