System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

Examples—Enabling or Disabling Read or Write Protection

This example shows how to enable write protection and set 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 shows how to disable write protection and remove the password on a Zip drive.


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

This example shows how to enable read protection and set 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 shows to disable read protection and remove the password on a Zip drive.


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