Solaris 8 System Administration Supplement

Examples—Enabling or Disabling Read or Write Protection

This example enables write protection and sets a password on a Zip drive.


$ rmformat -W enable /vol/dev/aliases/zip0
Please enter password (32 chars maximum): xxx
Please reenter password: xxx

This example disables write protection and removes the password on a Zip drive.


$ rmformat -W disable /vol/dev/aliases/zip0
Please enter password (32 chars maximum): xxx

This example enables read protection and sets a password on a Zip drive.


$ rmformat -R enable /vol/dev/aliases/zip0
Please enter password (32 chars maximum): xxx
Please reenter password: xxx

This example disables read protection and removes the password on a Zip drive.


$ rmformat -R disable /vol/dev/aliases/zip0
Please enter password (32 chars maximum): xxx