Hi Andy,

Thank you very much for the info!!  I have
successfully mounted a zip disk, which is really
awesome, since now I can move large files among my
computers.

As for the fstab string, I tried that and during the
boot it kept coming up saying that fstab is missing 4
fields and it didn't mount the drive.  I'll look into
the man page for fstab and try to come up with the
solution.

Thank you again!

J Silverman
--- Andy Ball <ball@cyberspace.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello 
> 
>   JS> As for the zip, I haven't tried anything yet
> on it, so
>     > if anyone has more info about working with a
> zip on
>     > NetBSD, please let me know.
> 
> At home I have a USB Zip drive that NetBSD presents
> to me as
> though it were just another SCSI disk.  I use it
> quite a lot
> FAT filesystem disks (carrying data between home and
> the
> office).  I used to type something like 'mount -t
> msdos
> /dev/sd0h /mnt/zip' to use them, but I added an
> entry to
> /etc/fstab so these days I just type 'mount
> /mnt/zip'.
> 
> I've experimentally used one Zip disk as though it
> were a
> tape... I'm not sure if tar counts as a filesystem.
> 
> I have thought about putting disklabels and ffs
> filesystems
> on some disks: not so much for any performance
> advantage,
> but it might be better at preserving file
> permissions than
> FAT is.
> 
>   JS> Anyway, I was wondering, since I need this
> disk
>     > mounted everytime I turn the computer on, if
> there was
>     > a way to get the disk automatically mounted
> during the
>     > boot process.
> 
> You can find out more about that by looking at the
> man page
> for fstab.  You may need to add something like...
> 
> /dev/sd1c /mnt/annex ffs auto
> 
>     ...assuming sd1c is the partition that you want
> to mount
> and that you make an empty directory called annex in
> /mnt.
> 
>   JS> Also, can I assign a different directory
> besides /mnt
>     > when I mount the disk?
> 
> I'm guessing you could, although it's not something
> that I
> remember trying.
> 
> - Andy Ball.

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