On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 19:17, Richard E Miles wrote: > I used to have a zip disc 100. When I formated the disc as ext2 I had to > mount the disk form /dev/sda1. Microsoft formated discs mounted on > /dev/sda4. This is normal. Here is an explanation which I found easily on the web using http://google.com/linux and "zip disk 100 ext2". http://www.linuxmall.com/resources/nlm/part1/fstab.html In short: To mount a Windows-formatted (vfat) Zip disk, you could enter: mount -t vfat /dev/hdc4 /mnt/zip By the way, that 4 tagged onto hdc is because Windows/DOS-formatted Zip disks use partition 4. (Macs must use partition 4, so having Windows PCs also use partition 4 prevents compatibility problems.) Or if you need to mount a Linux-formatted (ext2) Zip disk, you could enter: mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc1 /mnt/zip Note A Linux-formatted (ext2) Zip disk uses partition 1 instead of 4 because to format it as an ext2 disk you first need to "fdisk" it to remove the vfat filesystem. In Fdisk you'll assign it the first partition, not the fourth. Details of how to format floppy disks and Zip disks in Linux feature in a later chapter. -- Powered by Red Hat Linux 8.0 -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
