RE: mounting zip disk

From: Gerhard Magnus <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: mounting zip disk
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 15:42:07 -0800

When I put a zip disk in the drive and use the "Mount" command I get
from the right mouse button applied to the zip disk icon on my KDE
desktop I get the error message: "mount /dev/hdd4 is not a valid block
device.  Please check that the disk is entered correctly."

What does this message mean and how can I get this zip disk mounted?  (I
don't care if the solution involves losing data on the zip disk.)

Thanks for the help!
Jerry

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Jerry,
Is your zip disk already formatted? If it is, then make sure that you have ntfs file system installed. Type cat /proc/filesystems and check for ntfs. Now there could be some glitch which saw before. If you type /sbin/fdisk -l you migh be able to see your zip drive. Compare the zipdevice name with the one you get in the kde menu. They might be not the same. In that case follow this:

mkdir /mnt/zip
mount /dev/zipdevice_name /mnt/zip -t ntfs -r -o umask=0222
(Assuming you have ntfs file system and use the fdisk device name for 'zipdevice_name' )

And you should be able to mount your zip disk.
--Chet