Re: zip drive?
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 03:24:06PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
| Jeld The Dark Elf wrote:
|
| > There is a wierd problem with ZIP disks. The ones formatted for
| > windows have their main partition at /dev/hdd4 while the ones
| > formatted with ext2 are /dev/hdd1. Don't know why.
|
| I've never seen any formatted with ext2 unless I had done it
| myself, in which case I did whatever I wanted.
Ditto.
| /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/mini/ZIP-Drive.txt.gz advised people
| to do this in /etc/fstab:
|
| /dev/sda1 /zip ext2 noauto,rw,user,nosuid,sync
| /dev/sda4 /zipdos vfat noauto,rw,user,nosuid,sync,mode=0777
This works. Alternatively you could make sure you use the same
partition for both the (pre-made) vfat and ext2 disks and use "auto"
for the fs type. Then mount will figure out if it is ext2 or vfat for
you and you can use the same mount point.
-D
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