Re: superformat?
Quoting Immanuel Yap (noelyap@ascus.cit.cornell.edu):
> On Thu Sep 14, 2000, Michael Soulier wrote:
> > On 14 Sep 2000, John Hasler wrote:
> > Yeah, I suppose. Out of curiousity, what format is used on zip
> > drives running under Linux? I've never used one. Do they have their own
> > format, ala CDROMS with iso9660?
I don't think John Hasler wrote that.
> 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
FAT16 I believe. The vfat module will use long filenames on them.
> Mac (HPFS?). You're perfectly free, of course, to reformat the disk
> as ext2.
Do remember that the "tools" disks arrive in a very strange format
which should be regularised with the "reclaim" utility before you
try and reformat them.
I must admit that I find the most satisfactory compromise with floppies
and zip disks is to use them entirely with zip files. This (1) preserves
all the ownerships/permissions and so on, (2) increases their capacity,
(3) insures against unnoticed file corruption, (4) allows one to
extract the odd file on foreign OSes (DOS/Mac) and (5) means that users
of aforesaid OSes recognise the disk as unbroken if they happen to insert
it into their machine.
Cheers,
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