Automounting of USB drives - Why is it a problem?

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Wednesday, April 15, 2009 a las 02:50:03PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington escribió:

> Hello List,
> 
> For some time now, I have been baffled by one thing: Mac OS X somehow has
> FreeBSD under the hood. When you connect a USB stick (flash disk, external
> drive) to a Mac, it gets automounted, yet the same does not happen on
> FreeBSD.
> I have seen several questions being asked on this list about this feature,
> but the answer is neither here nor there.
> There is even a port (sysutils/automounter) that I believe is supposed to
> help towards this, but again it's not as easy as it seems to be.
> Now my question is just one: Why should it be this difficult for FreeBSD to
> have the automount feature within the base system?

Hello,

Before doubting and blaming, read all man pages; for example just do

$ man -k auto | fgrep mount
amd(8)                   - automatically mount file systems
amq(8)                   - automounter query tool
pawd(1)                  - print automounter working directory

> If OS X is doing it, Linux is doing it, FreeBSD can do it.

Ofc FreeBSD base system can do it for you if you configure it to do so;
read my attached paper for more help;

	matthias

> "Clothes make the man.  Naked people have little or no influence on
> society."
>               -- Mark Twain

I agree and would add: Reading makes the man wise :-)

CU

	matthias

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$Id: automount.txt,v 1.4 2006/09/18 14:59:29 guru Exp $

for automounting CDROM, USB (and other devices) you configure


/etc/amd.conf:

[ global ] 
normalize_hostnames =    no 
print_pid =              no 
restart_mounts =         yes 
auto_dir =               /a 
log_file =               /var/log/amd 
log_options =            all 
#debug_options =         all 
plock =                  no 
cache_duration  =        6 
dismount_interval =      20 
selectors_on_default =   yes 
# config.guess picks up "sunos5" and I don't want to edit my maps yet 
# os =                     sos5 
# if you print_version after setting up "os", it will show it. 
print_version =          no 
map_type =               file 
search_path =            /etc/amdmaps:/usr/lib/amd:/usr/local/AMD/lib 
browsable_dirs =         yes 
 
[ /a ] 
map_name =              amd.cdrom
[ /u ] 
map_name =              amd.usb

/etc/amdmaps/amd.cdrom:
cdrom           type:=cdfs;fs:=/cdrom;dev:=/dev/acd0;opts:=ro

/etc/amdmaps/amd.usb:
usb           type:=pcfs;fs:=/mnt/usb;dev:=/dev/da0s1;opts:=rw

/etc/rc.conf:

#
# automount daemon
rpcbind_enable="YES"
nfs_client_enable="YES"
amd_enable="YES"
amd_flags=""

then you just pick-up the directory /a/cdrom with Konqueror and
drag and drop the (video) file there to the Xine window, for example.