At 09:29 04/05/2001 +0100, you wrote:
"Peter B. Van Campen" wrote:
If I understand you right there may be a solution for you. I also thought that the partition number of the removable media drive had to be specified on a separate fstab entry along with a associated mount point thus: /dev/hda1 /cart1 .......... ^ ^
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I think the '4th partition' rule was only applicable to zip disks, due to some strange formatting that they have (AFAIK, zips are treated differently to floppies in Windows). If this isn't the case, then maybe the kernel has been updated to cope with these anomolies.
Bye, Chris
No, this was not only applicable to Zip disks, it also applies to Jaz disks. These are accessible at partition 4. I.e. mount hdx4, or sdx4. You can reformat them as e2fs, with partition 1, but then DOS/Windows will no longer be able to access them. I would NOT reformat, unless I was going to delete all MS systems forever.