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

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On Sat, 19 May 2018 20:35:59 +0200
Harry Schmalzbauer <freebsd at omnilan.de> wrote:

Hi,

> 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?

There is a nice little daemon: sysutils/dsbmd 
(see https://freeshell.de/~mk/projects/dsbmd.html
and /usr/local/etc/dsbmd.conf.sample)

with a simple GUI sysutils/dsbmc and cli (sysutils/dsbmc-cli) clients.
It supports automounting using devd and/or polling and automatic
or manual unmounting.