Re: zip drive?

[Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

D-Man wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 03:24:06PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> | /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/mini/ZIP-Drive.txt.gz advised people
> | to do this in /etc/fstab:
> | 
> |      /dev/sda1 /zip     ext2  noauto,rw,user,nosuid,sync
> |      /dev/sda4 /zipdos  vfat  noauto,rw,user,nosuid,sync,mode=0777
> 
> This works.  Alternatively you could make sure you use the same
> partition for both the (pre-made) vfat and ext2 disks and use "auto"
> for the fs type.  Then mount will figure out if it is ext2 or vfat for
> you and you can use the same mount point.

Excellent.  I should have said as much.

Peter