Formating zip disks other than VFat

[duncan brown]

i've found that you can just fdisk a zip disk and change the partition
type over to linux... you can even create multiple partitions.  at least,
i've done this with the ide/usb versions of the 100 capacity breed.

-d

Preston Crawford said:
> Got a zip drive recently. Using it to do small code backups. I was
> wondering... In order to maintain the integrity of the file
> permissions/dates, etc. (not sure if this is even necessary) can I
> format a zip disk as something other than vfat? Like ext2? Is this
> possible or even recommended? New area for me.
>
> Preston
>
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