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Re: superformat?



Immanuel Yap <noelyap@ascus.cit.cornell.edu> writes:

> ZIP drives are treated as hard drives: /dev/hd[a-d]4, if you have the
> IDE version.  Most (all?) ZIP disks come preformatted for PC (vfat) or
> Mac (HPFS?).  You're perfectly free, of course, to reformat the disk
> as ext2.

Mac format is HFS - Hierarchical File System (or the newer HFS+, which I don't
think Linux supports yet).  HPFS (High Performance File System) was for OS/2.

Hubert



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