Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 11:36:04 -0400 From: mfv <mfv@bway.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: automount usb msdosfs no partition table Message-ID: <20171009113604.3a6d2455@gecko4> In-Reply-To: <CAFYkXjnmnAxO%2BWSV0a-UjOZn7afoCef1i0O1nq=xZhZViY1zBg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAFYkXjnmnAxO%2BWSV0a-UjOZn7afoCef1i0O1nq=xZhZViY1zBg@mail.gmail.com>
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> On Mon, 2017-10-09 at 01:10 Tomasz CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> wrote: > >Hello world :-) > >I need to configure automount for a testing machine. It seems to work >fine, except for two issues: > >1. Mount point does not disappear after device disappears, what makes >things harder to script when device is gone. automount -c does not >remove the mountpoint, only restarting the service does. It is a bug >or feature? > >2. Automounter does not mount USB Pendrive / MSDOSFS devices that does >not have a parition table. Some USB Drives does not have valid >partition table, they appear as /dev/da0 and can be mounted with >mount_msdosfs /dev/da0 /mnt, but they are not recognised by >automounter.. how can I make it work with such devices? > >Any hints appreciated :-) >Tomek > Hello Tomek, The port/package, sysutils/automount, is able to do what you want. It automatically mounts MSDOS or gpart partioned USB thumb drives. Alas, it does not automatically mount CD/DVDs which require command line intervention. My configuration file (/usr/local/etc/automount.conf) differs from the sample as follow: MNTPREFIX=/media USERUMOUNT=YES ATIME=NO REMOVEDIRS=YES USER=<YourLoginName> NOTIFY=YES A devd configuration file that was installed by pkg was not changed. It is located at /usr/local/etc/devd/automount_devd.conf. My GUI desktop of choice is XFCE4 which has a plugin that recognises automatically mounted devices. It is possible to use this plugin to umount a USB thumb drive OR use the command line in a virtual terminal to umount in the traditional way. Cheers ... Marek
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