On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 09:16:54AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > 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. I've even seen zip disks that can only be mounted as e.g. /dev/hdc, i.e. the whole device. Don't know who produces such disks. MACs? Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the "Plug" almost always works. --unknown source
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