formatting my second hard drive?

[wsamh]

I want to format my second hard drive with ext3, but I get a prompt that says that I don't have permission. How can I fix that?

[iaculallad]

I want to format my second hard drive with ext3, but I get a prompt that says that I don't have permission. How can I fix that?

You could use the Gparted utility or on the terminal:

sudo mkfs.ext3 /dev/the_partition_you_want_formated

[Rocket2DMn]

Alternatively you can install GParted
sudo apt-get install gparted
Then access it from System->Administration->Partition Editor. You will need to make sure the drive's partition(s) is/are unmounted, then you can delete the existing partitions on that secondary device and reformat it with ext3. Assuming this drive is internal, you will want to add or edit a pre-existing fstab entry for this device, which I can help you do after you format it.

[Sef]

Or you can download GParted (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/) itself.