On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Mike & Tracy Holt wrote:

>> Is it possible to mount a Zip drive with 2 filesystems? In other words,
>> both ext2 and vfat? I have mine setup where you (as root) can
>> right-click on the Zip icon and pick either fs type. However, my user
>> account can not do this, because you must be su to use mount. It will
>> only allow my user access to the fs type in the /etc/fstab file. (the
>> user,noauto option in the fstab zip entry line).
>
>I don't think that you can because you're actually mounting one block
>device.  You would somehow have to create two partitions on the one
>block device and I think you would be running into to many problems. 
>Why not just make the whole thing dos and you would be able to access it
>from both windows and linux?

You can mount both types, but only one at a time.
Paul

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