Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Jun 2001 22:15:57 +0200 | From | Gregoire Favre <> | Subject | Re: Zip: what does that mean? |
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On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 08:40:57AM +0200, Philipp Matthias Hahn wrote:
> Nothing. Somethings is reeding /proc/partitions which lists all known > partitions. "fdisk" or "mount" do this. > > When reading the file the kernel has to check the media in your zip-drive. > Problem is, you havn't put in one. So there is no partition table to read > and the kernel complains and returns the default values of a typical > 100MB zip media.
Thanks for your answer, in fact, there was a media in my zip, but without any partition (as I don't see any other reason than avoiding those errors messages to make just one partition on my disk).
Thanks,
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