Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2912 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The Monday 2005-01-31 at 13:03 -0500, Gaunce Lewis wrote:

> As far as I can tell, subfs doesn't support zip drives.  I have tried 
> inserting the appropriate entries in fstab for the zip drive such as 
> 
> /dev/hdd4          /media/zip        vfat    noauto,users
> 
> but this has no effect.  Similar fstab entries worked fine in Suse 9.1 
> and several different versions of Red Hat.  

Did you see any other entry related to hdd, and with subfs mentioned?

> The oddest thing about all of this is that, when I list the 
> directory /dev, there is no entry of the form hdd4.  Every other 
> possible hdd# is there, but hdd4 is missing.  However, this is the 
> right partition for a vfat formatted zip disk.  

It really should be there. You could recreate it. My 9.1 has:

brw-rw----  1 root disk 22, 68 2004-08-15 14:00 /dev/hdd4



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Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson