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I would like to use a ZIP drive (the disks really) on both Linux and Solaris
x86 systems.  I know two ways to utilize the ZIP disks under Linux:

 - format in DOS (using ZIPtools) and mount -t msdos ...
 - fdisk and mke2fs in Linux and mount -t ext2 ...

The problem (as near as I can tell) is that Solaris x86 cannot mount
either msdos (FAT) or ext2 (second extended) filesystems.  (Somebody
please say I'm wrong.)

"http://blackhole.eas.asu.edu/zip/solaris2x/zip-install.html" shows how
to install a ZIP drive on Solaris 2.5 which involves using 'format' and
'newfs' to make a ufs filesystem on the ZIP disk.  UFS filesystems
(especially those done bu Sun), as far as I can tell, are not mountable
under Linux.  (Somebody prove me wrong?)

Any ideas?

Brendan Miller

As far as I can see, UFS seems to be more of a family of filesystemes
with minor differences between each other than just *one* well-specified
filesystem.  Which might explain why Linux won't mount FreeBSD's
partitions even tho all the docs in FreeBSD talk about them as "UFS".

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> I would like to use a ZIP drive (the disks really) on both Linux and Solaris
> x86 systems.  I know two ways to utilize the ZIP disks under Linux:

> Any ideas?

: well...if you take your floppy...stick it into the floppy drive on your sun wstation,
: do `volcheck`, then `mount` you'll see that your floppy has been mounted somewhere in
: /floppy/<label> or similar...meaning solaris can mount dos floppies...
: as far as linux is concerned...I think linux has support for almost every fs
:  on this planet. and if you have your two machines near by...you can allways
: nfs export your zip drive can't you? and mount it on your linux box...nfs mount that is...
: ?;)
:
I have a more or less related question: has anybody written a 4.2 (that is
pre-Solaris SunOS) fs for Linux? I have a bunch of old magnetooptical disks
written by a Sun3 that I would be glad to read from Linux...

Thank you for your attention

Alain Borel

So I think all you need is a big endian UFS.

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|  As far as I know, the filesystem of SunOS-5 is the same as the one in
|  SunOS-4, so you should be able to use the exact same ufs support in Linux,

Except Solaris has ACLs and the possibility of 32-bit uids and gids. The
on-disk inode formats are not 100% identical - compare 'struct icommon'
(particularly the last 16 bytes) in SunOS (/usr/include/ufs/inode.h) and
Solaris (/usr/include/sys/fs/ufs_inode.h).

As far as I know you can mount a SunOS filesystem on a Solaris machine,
without problems (at least I didn't have any). I believe you can also do
the reverse, but this depends on SunOS leaving certain fields untouched.