On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Kevin Krieser wrote:
> I figured it was more complicated, since you mentioned a Mac, I figured it
> may be mac formatted.
>
> I just created a /mnt/zip directory, then added to the /etc/fstab the
> following line:
>
> /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip vfat default,umask=0 1 1
>
> Where the sda maps to the lowest IDed SCSI drive. My 2 SCSI hard drives
> have higher numbers, and are sdb and sdc.
> The 4 maps to the partition number. Preformatted ZIP disks for some reason
> are generally at 4. You can see this by doing a (non destructive) fdisk of
> /dev/sda to see what number it used.
>
> The vfat gives you long filenames, assuming they are compiled as modules or
> into your kernel. Base LM 8 supports it.
> default chooses normal default options, I added an umask=0 so non-root users
> could, by default, read/write to the disk.
>
> Once in the /etc/fstab file, you can, as root, type mount /mnt/zip
>
> Other options are available if you want to enable other people than root to
> mount the disk, or even supermount which may mount it automatically.
Thanks Kevin,
I tried your suggestion however that syntax didn't appear to work.
I ended up using this:
`/mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/sda4 0 0'
now when I try to `cd /mnt/zip' this error is returned,
`cd: /mnt/zip: Input/output erro'
Any suggestions? We're getting closer...
I do have a pc formatted zip in the drive when trying the foregoing.
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Cheers,
Steve - ICQ 35454764
Toronto
