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Date:      Sun, 20 May 2018 23:52:30 +0200
From:      EBFE <ebfe@inbox.ru>
To:        Harry Schmalzbauer <freebsd@omnilan.de>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: removable storage usability, devd, hald and X11-desktop in general
Message-ID:  <20180520235230.70bab894@inbox.ru>
In-Reply-To: <5beffba2-d2d5-689a-9cb1-054379f55adf@omnilan.de>
References:  <5beffba2-d2d5-689a-9cb1-054379f55adf@omnilan.de>

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

Hi,

> Biggest question: How are useres expected to handle removable media?
>=20
> I'm a happy user of autofs(5) in several environments (mostly for NFS=20
> 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=20
> out the modern "light" desktops) and I think I remember having read
> they utilize devd(8).=C2=A0 But again, how to unmount?

There is a nice little daemon: sysutils/dsbmd=20
(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.=20



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