---
name: "jazip.conf"
section: "5"
platform: "linux"
package: "jazip"
version: "0.34-15.1+b2"
release: "Debian 10 (Buster)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/jazip.conf"
---

# jazip.conf(5)

jazip(1) configuration file.

## NAME

jazip.conf - [jazip(1)](/jazip/1.md) configuration file.

## DESCRIPTION

The **/etc/jazip.conf** file lists the Jaz and Zip devices that users are allowed to mount and  unmount using jazip, along with the mount points used by jazip for each  device.

If you have more than one drive on your system, you can create a separate entry in the configuration file for each one, and then specify the raw device name of the drive you want to use on the command line when you invoke jazip.  If no device name is given on the command line, jazip will use the settings in the *first* entry of /etc/jazip.conf by default.

## FILE FORMAT

The format of the jazip.conf file should be mostly self-explanatory. Each line looks like:

**/dev/sda /zip auto auto 0 0**

The first entry is the raw SCSI device name of your drive (e.g.  */dev/sda* **without a partition number** ).  The second entry is the mount point you wish to use (e.g.  */zip* ).  The additional entries:

**auto auto 0 0**

are required but are not user-changeable.  They are required because  jazip uses standard system call to do mounting and they expect this  format.

The type of filesystem (e.g.  *vfat* or *ext2* ) will be automatically detected by jazip and is not listed in /etc/jazip.conf.

## CONFIGURATION SCRIPT

See the  [*jazipconfig*(8)](/jazipconfig/8.md) man page for specifics on the **jazipconfig** command that you can use to create /etc/jazip.

## SEE ALSO

[*jazip*(1)](/jazip/1.md), [*jazipconfig*(8)](/jazipconfig/8.md)

## AUTHOR

jazip Copyright (c) 1996  Jarrod A. Smith

This manual page by Peter S Galbraith \<psg@debian.org\> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).