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



On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 02:14:04PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman 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.

I have used them.  And I've seen that people tend to either use (in my
case) sda4 or they format the things to use sda...  I have seen some
exotic formatted zip disks with a partition on sda4 and another on sda1
too.

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