removable storage usability, devd, hald and X11-desktop in general

[Edward Tomasz Napierała]

On 0519T2035, Harry Schmalzbauer wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> after 10 years I replaced my personal desktop machine (FreeBSD8 -> 
> FreeBSD12).
> While aware of OS progress, I haven't followed any development on the 
> X11 planet.
> 
> To my surprise, things were in better shape 10 years ago, regarding 
> desktop usability.
> 
> Biggest question: How are useres expected to handle removable media?
> 
> I'm a happy user of autofs(5) in several environments (mostly for NFS 
> mounts), but I'm not aware of any helper tool which enables _users_ to 
> unmount before pulling the UFD.
> I've heard of PC-BSD and Lumina (see later why I haven't really tried 
> out the modern "light" desktops) and I think I remember having read they 
> utilize devd(8).  But again, how to unmount?

Me, I just use three second timeout for autounmountd, like this:

autounmountd_flags="-t 3 -r 3".