Well, from the entry you sent, it looks like you have a partition 4 (that's
what the "4" in "hdd4" means) that's formatted using vfat (the newer
filesystem used with Windows). I think I recall that, for some reason,
preformatted ZIP disks come set up as partition 4.
At 07:03 PM 4/6/00 -0400, Karthik Vishwanath wrote:
>Ok. This question was triggered off by this - the current entry in my
>/etc/fstab for my zip drive reads:
>-----------
>/dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip vfat noauto,rw,user,nosuid,sync
>-----------
>and I can mount all the zip drives my colleagues give me. It used to read:
>-----------
>/dev/hdd /mnt/zip vfat noauto,rw,user,nosuid,sync
>-----------
>and the mount failed. Why is that? What partitions do I have on a zipdisk
>that is formatted in Windoze?
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