Hi Gerassimos On 07-Jul-01 Gerassimos Toumazatos wrote:

Hi, I want to know how can I format a zip diskette (scsi) to ext2fs

In the usual way! Insert the ZIP disk into the drive, and then (using the appropriate device for your setup) do the equivalent of mkfs -t ext2 /dev/sda4 (In my case it is a parallel-port ZIP drive with pseudo-scsi interface. "modprobe ppa" then makes the drive appear as /dev/sda4. In your case it is probably different, but once you know what it is you can change the above command and it should work).

and how can I make any user to have rw access to that device.

This is just like giving any other mounted device user access. Again in my case, the entry in /etc/fstab is /dev/sda4 /zip ext2 rw,user,noauto,exec,suid 0 2 and then "mount /zip" seems to work. Of course you may also need to change permissions on any directories that subsequently get created on the ZIP disk, but that should not be an issue at the stage of formatting and mounting. Hope this helps, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 167 1972 Date: 07-Jul-01 Time: 16:11:38 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------