formatting external harddisk

[Nano]

Philippe Landau Wrote: 
> >> found no GUI formatting tool (is there one ?)
> > GParted
> i installed it now, switched to sda,
> created a disk label (default: dos),
> clicked on "unallocated", new partition, fat32,
> apply but get "Error while creating /dev/sda1"
> 
> kind regards     philippe
> 
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You have to make sure it's unmounted when trying to format a drive
with gparted.


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Nano