Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 16:50:13 -0800 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Stable ML <stable@freebsd.org> Cc: trasz@freebsd.org Subject: Auto-mounting USB NTFS formatted devices on FreeBSD 10.2 and HEAD Message-ID: <CAN6yY1vS9e9NKQm0ezQVtcHxuSZjCz7XyuK2XeRGU8xneJ0=KQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Since the removal of NTFS support, it is unclear how to get USB drives formatted as NTFS (or ExFAT) to automatically mount. Prior to FreeBSD 10 it was possible to replace /sbin/mount_ntfs with a script that would generate appropriate options and exec /usr/local/sbin/ntfs-3g and let HAL fire up mount_ntfs, but that no longer works as mount_ntfs is no longer used and mount(8) no longer treats '-t ntfs' as special. It would appear that automount(8) would be the right magic, but it's not obvious to me how to configure it to recognize that an NTFS device has been connected to a USB port (as opposed to msdosfs) and to use ntfs-3g to do the actual mount. I assume that the same issue exists for ExFAT. Does anyone have an idea of what magic is required in the auto_master or elsewhere to make this work in conjunction with devd? I'd really like to avid using hald, if possible. -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683
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