reg hughson wrote:
I have always used vfat formatted zip disks when using my zip drive uder linux. I only recent;y started using ext2 formated disks My entry in fstab for vfat disks was
/dev/hdd1 /zip vfat rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0
but I have to chage it to
/dev/hdd /zip ext2 rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0
in order to mount my ext2 disks.
Since I now have both vfat and ext2 formatted zip disks, is there a way I can have one combined entry in fstab or can i list both of the above entries in fstab with no problems and have linux be able to figure out which type of disk is in the drive?
If it was me, I'd create two mount points, /zipe for the ext2 disks, and /zipv for the vfat disks, and then change /etc/fstab to read: /dev/hdd1 /zipv vfat rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/hdd /zipe ext2 rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0 Then you could specify the type easily, using either 'mount /zipe' or 'mount /zipv'.
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Jon Pennington wrote: > On Sun, Apr 16, 2000 at 09:05:15PM -0400, Fred A. Miller wrote: > > Jon, or anyone else who may know the answer, below is the line I put in > > my fstab file for the Zip-250....."nada." I randomly set it to hda2. > > > > Thanks,
Fred
/dev/hda2 /zip vfat rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0
Windows-Formatted disks use hd?4, since the meat of the disk is on the fourth slice. Don't ask me what the first three slices are used for; I don't work for Iomega ;). If you reformat the disks for any other file system (such as ext2), you can use the entire disk instead of a partition and get away with it just fine. For instance, `mke2fs /dev/hda' would make the entire hda device a usable ext2 partition.
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