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[Andresito del Hierro <adelhier@edv1.boku.ac.at>]

Hello Peter 

Yes it seems that my ext2 zip disks don't work on jaZip. Yes I guess I
did not fdisk them when I ext2 them.
I forgot to send my last mail to the list --sorry folks! :-(  --
Andres
> Andresito del Hierro wrote:
> 
> > Hello Peter
> > 
> > fdisk said! "Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table
> > etc..."  
> 
> Interesting.  fdisk can't read the partition table on them?  Weird.
> 
> >          But I can normally mount them on /dev/sda no partition number
> > using xvmount.
> > >From the xvmounttab :
> > 
> > #name device directory type options
> > ...
> > ZIPext2 /dev/sda /zip  auto defaults
> > ...
> 
> Interesting again.  I had not noticed the xvmount package
> before.  I'll give it a try.
> 
> > I guess that I did not fdisk them when I made them
> > ext2. 
> 
> So your ext2 zip disks don't work in jazip?
> 
> I usually pop a new zip disk in, fdisk it to change the partition
> ID and reformat it.  I not 100% sure that you need to change the
> ID for jazip to work;  that was an assumption on my part.
> 
> Peter
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