RE: putting an ext2 filesystem on a zipdrive

[Jeff Graves]

I think that zip disks use extended partitions so you need to do 
a mke2fs /dev/hdb4 to format the zip disk. Not totally sure 
though.

-----Original Message-----
From:   Hanigan Family [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:   Thursday, December 16, 1999 6:27 PM
To:     Redhat list
Subject:        putting an ext2 filesystem on a zipdrive

Hi all,
I am trying to put a linux file system on a zip drive
I delete current partition, create new linux partition
than I write partition table to disk. Using fdisk or
cfdisk both  work fine.
Next I try
mke2fs /dev/hdb1
and I get I/O errors I thought this was the command
to format the disk but am wondering if I am missing
a step is there a seperate command 2 format the
zip drive before it makes the filesystem? or do
I have a bad zipdisk?
            Linda


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