Whoops... n00b roots showing!

Hi folks, hope the mass mind can help:

HD died, so I put an old 8 gig'er in and reinstalled knoppix (Danix actually, until I can get the real deal in 3.4!). Now, the new knoppix OS won't let me have anything but read access to my hdb1.

I've checked, and I've disabled read only, giver rwx to all 3 levels, and the owner of the files are the same as my new user.

Hair is now being pulled out, and I'd reformat the hard drive, if qtparted would let me.

Advice? Help!

Thanks in advance,
grend

Sounds like a clicking problem. Stop clicking, start typing.

1) su
2) mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1
3) mount

Is your drive there and mounted rw? Here's what it should look like:

/dev/hdb1 on /mnt/hdb1 type ext3 (rw)

Qtparted:

1) su
2) qtparted

I must ask why you want to use qtparted to format a drive. That's using an elephant gun to kill a flea. Does qtparted actually format anyway? I dunno - never used it (too complicated for me :) )

I do this:

mke2fs /dev/hdb1
tune2fs -j /dev/hdb1

That gives you a nice ext3 file system. gluck!