Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 10:45:48 -0400 From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> To: Parrish Myers <parrish@engr.arizona.edu> Cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Zip Drive Message-ID: <19970826104548.11175@ct.picker.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970825223840.3179U-100000@localhost>; from Doug White on Mon, Aug 25, 1997 at 10:39:49PM -0700 References: <Pine.OSF.3.95.970818163138.5547A-100000@engr.arizona.edu> <Pine.BSF.3.96.970825223840.3179U-100000@localhost>
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Doug White: |On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, Parrish Myers wrote: |> mount /dev/sd0s1 /zip ... |> /dev/sd0s1 on /zip: Incorrect super block. | |Is this a UFS-formatted or a MSDOS-formatted disk? | |For MSDOS, you want to do: | |mount -t msdos /dev/sd0c /zip Not exactly. MSDOS disks are sliced. By default, IOMEGA ZIP Disks come formatted with the DOS FS slice on slice 4. This will be the case for ZIPTOOLS-reformatted disks as well. So you want: mount -t msdos /dev/sd0s4 /zip (assuming sd0, i.e. the ZIP is your first probed SCSI disk). |For UFS: | |mount /dev/sd0c /zip This is what you want for UFS disks that are "dangerously dedicated". If you instead format your UFSs sliced like I prefer to, then use the slice notation. I put my ZIP UFSs on slice 1. Makes it real easy to write a safe, generic setuid "mountzip" script: mount -t msdos /dev/sd0s4 /zip || mount /dev/sd0s1 /zip "df /zip" tells you right off what FS type you've got in case you forget. Randall
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