Auto Mount USB

[Brian Miller]

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?

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"

Thanks for the response.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Moran [mailto:wmoran at potentialtech.com] 
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 12:27 PM
To: Brian Miller
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Auto Mount USB

In response to "Brian Miller" <bmiller at lablaw.org>:
> 
> I can mount the drive just fine with the mount command. I also was
able
> to add it to the fstab and have it mount at boot.
> 
> However if the drive is removed it has to be mounted again. How do you
> get it to mount back up with out having to run the mount command
again?

You're slightly off course.  Read man 8 amd and see if that helps.
Also,
section 27.3.5 of the handbook:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-nfs.ht
ml
If you get stuck on specifics, ask here.

> Also I noticed while playing with it that the device assignment keeps
> changing each time it is plugged back into the system. Started with
> /dev/da0s1, then da1s1, then da2s1, da3s1 and so on. Which means I
have
> to change my mount comand every time.

I've not see this happen.  Are you umounting it before you remove the
drive?  If not, then the drive is still mounted from a previous
connection
(even though it can't be accessed) so the system has to grab the next
available device.

This will go away once you have amd running.

-- 
Bill Moran
http://www.potentialtech.com