Auto Mount USB
Bill Moran
wmoran at potentialtech.com
Mon Aug 18 18:01:02 UTC 2008
In response to "Brian Miller" <bmiller at lablaw.org>:
> I started looking at amd and it is just what I need but it doesn't
> appear to be available? From what I have read it should be part of
> FreeBSD? I see that I can download a tar from www.am-utils.org should I
> do that or is there a "Package" available for it? Is there something
> similar to "YUM" for FreeBSD?
Actually, I found this spiffy port while looking for a good reference
to point you to: cd /usr/ports/sysutils/automounter && make install
then read man automounter for setup instructions.
Keep in mind that the reason this is less than simple is because
automatically mounting removable media is a huge security risk. The
fact that it's so convenient that most people ignore the security
risk does not mitigate the risk in any way.
> You are correct that I was not dismounting then removing the drive. So
> that makes sense. Next question is how/can I free them up? Tried "umount
> /dev/da0s1" but it fails with "Device not configured"
umount the mountpoint, not the device. I.e. umount /usr, not /dev/ad0s1g
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