On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 09:56:49AM -0700, mjv wrote: > That's funny, I just mounted the zip w/o the -t msdos, and it still mounted > fine. > Am I playing Russian Roulette by doing that? > > Also, I assume I can create a Linux fs on a zip disk - and I assume that since > we can squeeze 1.6meg from a regular floppy, the same could be true with > squeezing > extra space from the Zip floppy. Anyone have any experience with this? > I wish to create a backup disk for all the programs I download (the dos > format > truncates the names - and I'd rather store Linux files on a Linux file system)
You can squeeze more out of a floppy by doing a more efficient low-level format (which divides the disk into little bits). However since the Zip disk is seen as a SCSI disk, I doubt you can get more than the ~100MB they store. You can repartition and reformat them (high level reformat) with a ext2 filesystem - I did this so that I can have /dev/sda1 rather than the silly /dev/sda4! Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Debian Linux http://www.debian.org The superior Linux distribution
