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Creating a ZIP Disk for Use in the Lab

  1. Log in as root.

  2. Insert a ZIP disk into the drive.

  3. Format partitions on the disk. Partition 1 should be partitioned and formatted as a DOS partition so that it can be mounted by Windows and Linux. Partition 2 should be made a Linux partition. If you will not need additional partitions you can have partition 2 fill the remainder of the disk. The fdisk utility will create the proper partitions. The ZIP disk you start with may have a different number of partitions on it than the one used in the dialog below. You start by removing any existing partitions. Here is a dialog appropriate for a 100 GByte ZIP disk. The first partition is allocated 30 Megabytes and the second the remainder of the disk. 

    
[root@SSU37805 root]# fdisk /dev/hdb

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/hdb: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 96 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1             1        31     31728    6  FAT16
/dev/hdb2            32        96     66560   83  Linux

Command (m for help): d
Partition number (1-4): 2

Command (m for help): d
Partition number (1-4): 1

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/hdb: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 96 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System

Command (m for help): n
Command action
   e   extended
   p   primary partition (1-4)
p
Partition number (1-4): 1
First cylinder (1-96, default 1): <-- accept the default
Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-96, default 96): +30M

Command (m for help): n
Command action
   e   extended
   p   primary partition (1-4)
p
Partition number (1-4): 2
First cylinder (32-96, default 32): <-- accept the default 
Using default value 32
Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (32-96, default 96): <-- accept the default 
Using default value 96

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/hdb: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 96 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1             1        31     31728   83  Linux
/dev/hdb2            32        96     66560   83  Linux

Command (m for help): t
Partition number (1-4): 1
Hex code (type L to list codes): 6
Changed system type of partition 1 to 6 (FAT16)

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/hdb: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 96 cy
Disk /dev/hdb: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 96 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1             1        31     31728    6  FAT16
/dev/hdb2            32        96     66560   83  Linux

Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered!

Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.

WARNING: If you have created or modified any DOS 6.x
partitions, please see the fdisk manual page for additional
information.
Syncing disks.
[root@SSU37805 root]#
  4. Format the Linux partition 
    
[root@SSU37805 root]# mke2fs /dev/hdb2
mke2fs 1.23, 15-Aug-2001 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=1024 (log=0)
Fragment size=1024 (log=0)
16704 inodes, 66560 blocks
3328 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=1
9 block groups
8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group
1856 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks: 
	8193, 24577, 40961, 57345

Writing inode tables: done                            
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

This filesystem will be automatically checked every 23 mounts or
180 days, whichever comes first.  Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.
[root@SSU37805 root]#
  5. Mount the Linux partition. 
    
root@SSU37805 root]# mount /dev/hdb2 /mnt/zip
[root@SSU37805 root]#
  6. Copy the directory /home and all its subdirectories to the ZIP disk, retaining file attributes. 
    
[root@SSU37805 /]# cp -aR /home/* /mnt/zip
[root@SSU37805 /]#
  7. Eject the ZIP disk 
    
[root@SSU37805 /]# eject /dev/hdb
[root@SSU37805 /]#

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