Re: debian read mac formatted zip disk question (2)

[Frank Zimmermann <F.Zimmermann@bham.ac.uk>]

> jim R. wrote:
>
> > HI,
> > What i meant was how can i make debian linux to
> > recognize mac
> > formatted zip disk?. mounting is easy. but how to
> > mount so
> > that linux can recognize mac formatted disk. drive on
> > linux is parallel not scsi. Jim
>
> Your kernel has to support hfs file system.
>
> mount -t hfs device dir
>
> probably should also have hfsutils installed
>
> --
> Jerome

The standard Debiankernel supports hfs and you don't really need the 
hfs utils. As long as you ZIP drive is configured it works just as 
Jerome said. If you have dos and mac zips try the auto recognition of 
the file system. Your fstab entry should look like this:

device	dir	auto	ro,noauto,user	0	0

Frank
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