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SubjectRe: Zip: what does that mean?
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,

Greg
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