On Wednesday 28 January 2004 09:12 pm, Scott Talbot wrote: > On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 15:56, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 05:29:01PM -0600, Charles Howse wrote: > > > Hi, > > > FC1, w/ KDE. > > > [root@moe charles]# uname -r > > > 2.4.22-1.2149.nptl > > > > > > What type filesystem do I have to have on my zip disks to be able to > > > mount them with the default entery in /etc/fstab? I've just booted to > > > windows and formatted a 100M disk with the fat filesystem, but... > > > > > > [root@moe charles]# mount /mnt/zip > > > mount: /dev/sda4 is not a valid block device > > > > > > I *can* mount them at /dev/sda1... > > > [root@moe charles]# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/zip > > > [root@moe charles]# > > > > > > >From my /etc/fstab... > > > > > > /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip auto > > > noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 > > > > I suspect it isn't a matter of file system but of which device you are > > trying to load. If you can mount at /dev/sda1, then try changing the > > line in fstab to reflect that. > > > > For more info, see the ZIP Drive HOWTO, at http://www.tldp.org/ > > There was a thread recently that really helped a lot. Seems thee is a > file /etc/updfstab.conf.default that kudzu uses to change fstab. In > that file there is an entry for Zip drives that specifies Partition 4. > My Zip works with partition = 0, Looks like yours is 1 9no idea why this > should be, but I think it might be that if your disk came with software, > then it may have been set up that way. I never looked at it with fdisk. > > anyway just edit the file (as root) that should fix your problems. Great answer! Thanks, Scott! I changed /etc/updfstab.conf.default, also changed the type of filesystem in /etc/fstab to fat,vfat since that's then only kind of filesystems I have on my zippers. Working fine now, will lreboot in a while to make sure my changes aren't getting trashed on reboot. -- Charles Howse Jackson, TN Fedora Core 1 Uptime: 14:38
