Re: Are /cdrom and /floppy really forbidden by policy?

[Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

Wichert Akkerman wrote:

> Previously Joseph Carter wrote:
> > No, Zip disks are removable small hard drives...  Partition tables and
> > all.
> 
> Have you ever actually used Zip disks? They always use primary partition
> number 4. Using something else is just as silly as putting iso9660 on
> it.

Some people use /dev/sdX4 for FAT and /dev/sdX1 for ext2 and put
both in their /etc/fstab.

I use:

/dev/sde1               /zip            ext2    user,noauto
/dev/sde4               /zip            vfat    user,noauto

We can put /zip in fstab if we document it and comment it out.
There's no garantee that it will be /dev/sda4.
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