Re: yes jaZIP works

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

Andresito del Hierro wrote:

> Thank you Peter!
> 
> Yes it recognizes the different partitions, GREAT and easy!. All the
> DOS formated disks work well and get mounted (being /dev/sda1 or
> /dev/sda4). How do you get ext2 format to be mounted with JaZip?

Jazip reads the partition table.  So if you used fdisk and
changed the partition ID to Linux ext2 and reformatted it with
mke2fs, then jazip should see that when you attempt to mount it
and it should mount it correctly as ext2 using the same mount
point. 

Peter

> > jaZip should read them whether they have partition /dev/sda1 or
> > /dev/sda4 if you can mount them manually already (meaning you
> > have proper kernel support).  Please try `/usr/sbin/jazipconfig'
> > to create your /etc/jazip.conf and report any bugs.  The format
> > is simple:
> > 
> > # Configuration file for jaZip
> > #
> > # Raw Device         Mount Point                  Read but ignored
> >   /dev/sda              /zip                      auto    auto        0 0
> > 
> > Peter, your friendly Debian jazip package maintainer
> ---end quoted text---
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