[2478] in Release_7.7_team
Re: mounting ZIP drives under linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Mon Nov 6 17:43:31 2000
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 17:43:25 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <200011062243.RAA44731@karst.mit.edu>
From: "andrew m. boardman" <AMB@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@mit.edu
In-reply-to: Abby Fox's message of Mon, 06 Nov 2000 12:21:07 -0500
<200011061721.MAA20621@whirlwind.mit.edu>
[a collective response]
>As far as mmount, it's not clear to me how useful it is
Not at all; my previous message was based on a couple of incorrect
assumptions.
But in any case, I think the user-mountable fstab entry for an msdos
fstype is the right thing.
>but in any case adding the following to /etc/fstab lets me
>mount non-root: [...]
>That's with mount or mmount, no options;
As far as I can tell, mmount relies on checking the boot sector for
fstype; without a world-readable /dev/sda mmount won't work...
>Also, on Suns we recommend using Zip disks with mtools like "mdir z:",
>"mcopy z:thesis.tex .", and so on; on SGI's, Zip disks show up under
>/zip without manual user intervention, as root or otherwise.
The latter will work by default, and the former will work if we provide a
user-mountable /zip entry via fstab. May as well do both. (It is linux,
after all.)
andrew
