FWIW, the [*] tag was intended to lead to:
[*] The drive had a little help on the path to failure - my new
puppy pulled on the cable and the drive experienced a free-fall
of approximately 20 inches (0.5 meters). It seemed to work for
a short while, but then totally locked up and won't even
I have the following entry in my /etc/fstab file:
...
NAME=backups/backup ffs rw,noauto
...
This is for a removable USB drive which is used to store various
backups (as suggested by the label!). Most of the time, the drive
is _not_connected_ - I only plug it in when I am
