View source for Handeling removable disks under ESATA

==to mount a disk==

==to unmount the disk again==

==to format a disk==

==setting up sudo==

reminder for system managers regarding how sudo is set up for the above procedures to work


visudo

  Cmnd_Alias ESATAFORMAT = /sbin/e2label, /sbin/fdisk, /sbin/mkfs.ext4, /bin/mkdir, /bin/chmod
  gamuser ALL=ESATAFORMAT
  dgs     ALL=ESATAFORMAT
  Cmnd_Alias ESATAMOUNT = /bin/mount, /bin/umount
  gamuser ALL=ESATAMOUNT
  dgs     ALL=ESATAMOUNT

your system manager may or may not be friendly enough to let you do this...