Quoting Immanuel Yap ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Thu Sep 14, 2000, Michael Soulier wrote: > > On 14 Sep 2000, John Hasler wrote: > > Yeah, I suppose. Out of curiousity, what format is used on zip > > drives running under Linux? I've never used one. Do they have their own > > format, ala CDROMS with iso9660?
I don't think John Hasler wrote that. > ZIP drives are treated as hard drives: /dev/hd[a-d]4, if you have the > IDE version. Most (all?) ZIP disks come preformatted for PC (vfat) or FAT16 I believe. The vfat module will use long filenames on them. > Mac (HPFS?). You're perfectly free, of course, to reformat the disk > as ext2. Do remember that the "tools" disks arrive in a very strange format which should be regularised with the "reclaim" utility before you try and reformat them. I must admit that I find the most satisfactory compromise with floppies and zip disks is to use them entirely with zip files. This (1) preserves all the ownerships/permissions and so on, (2) increases their capacity, (3) insures against unnoticed file corruption, (4) allows one to extract the odd file on foreign OSes (DOS/Mac) and (5) means that users of aforesaid OSes recognise the disk as unbroken if they happen to insert it into their machine. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
