Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
AFAIK, the factory (FAT) formatted Zip disks sold by Iomega always use hdd4. You could of course repartition them, but most people who do this then make an ext2 file-system rather that vfat, which explains the fstab entries below. > /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 > > These entries assume that you have a /zip and a /zipdos > directory. With the fstab entries as above you can mount a dos > disk with mount /zipdos If you are using a linux ext2 disk then > use the command mount /zip Note that you can alternatively specify "auto" as the file-system type, in which case it will be auto-detected by mount. -- Leonard Stiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
