>
> Now it IS able to read the ZIP disk partition table. This says that
> your ZIP disk IS pre-partitioned.
>
> > And the above gave me the clue I needed for the zip drive: sda is what
> > it wants to see in fstab:
> > /dev/sda /mnt/zip vfat exec,user,noauto,rw,suid,dev 0 0
> >
> > I got tired of all the deleting and relinking to /dev/zip, so I just
> > put /dev/sda in fstab.
>
> Should have been sda4, surely? sda is the device (you cannot mount
> devices), sda4 is the partition (you can mount partitions).
No, that's not true. You can mount devices. I used to use zip & sparq
drives like that all the time. It simply uses them like a floppy--the
entire drive is used for the filesystem.
This usage won't be compatible with the pre-formatting on the drives,
though; I used to use them with the ext2 filesystem so I didn't care.
On the other hand, if you are doing to use them with the vfat file
system, and especially if you are going to want to be compatible with
what computers using the "other" O/S read & write, /dev/sda4 is probably
better.
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