On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 11:18:53PM -0700, Preston Crawford wrote: > Got a zip drive recently. Using it to do small code backups. I was > wondering... In order to maintain the integrity of the file > permissions/dates, etc. (not sure if this is even necessary) can I > format a zip disk as something other than vfat? Like ext2? Is this > possible or even recommended? New area for me. Yes. See the ZIP Drive Mini-HOWTO, available at the Linux Documentation Project. http://www.tldp.org/ It's written for the parallel port ZIP drive, but the formatting instructions should apply to any ZIP disk. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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