Kool,

For formatting, drop to a shell console, root, preferably, and do one of the mkfs commands...

Not exactly sure on the spelling, maybe...

mkext3fs - or mkfsext3 ???

Got it...

mkfs.ext3 - you can look at the man pages on what options you want to provide, but from just entering the command alone on the console, you only need to provide the [device], all the rest are non-required flags/switches/options....

Hope this helps, and glad you got your auto-mounting working
Ms. Cuddles