>> >It *should* be as easy as opening up a console window and
>> >saying "mke2fs /dev/sda4" for example (SCSI Zip drive --
>> >first SCSI device.) IIRC, Zips default to partition #4 for
>> >their file system.
>> >    John
>> 
>> That should not work, since the default is a MessyDOS partition and
>> mke2fs will want a Linux partition.
>> 
>AFAIK, it shouldn't MATTER, as you're reformatting the
>partition.
>       John

The mke2fs program should be looking for a Linux partition.  Letting it
format a MessyDOS partition as a Unix partition would be bad.  Last thing
I would want mke2fs to do is destroy a real MessyDOS partition.

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