Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 17:56:48 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Stable ML <stable@freebsd.org>, trasz@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Auto-mounting USB NTFS formatted devices on FreeBSD 10.2 and HEAD Message-ID: <201601251657.u0PGum6r008353@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Sun, 24 Jan 2016 16:50:13 -0800." <CAN6yY1vS9e9NKQm0ezQVtcHxuSZjCz7XyuK2XeRGU8xneJ0=KQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Kevin Oberman wrote: > 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. I use devd to auto mount USB NTFS, I just it works with 10.2-RELEASE & an NTFS USB connected drive, here's a chunk from my http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/src/jhs/etc/devd/berklix.conf action "sleep 10; \ rm -f /devusb/acer300; \ ln -s /dev/`echo $device-name|sed -e s/umass/da/`s1 \ /devusb/acer300.1; \ ln -s /dev/`echo $device-name|sed -e s/umass/da/`s2 \ /devusb/acer300.2; \ ln -s /dev/`echo $device-name|sed -e s/umass/da/`s3 \ /devusb/acer300.3; \ mkdir -p /media/acer300.2; mkdir -p /media/acer300.3; \ chmod 777 /media/acer300.*; \ chown jhs:staff /media/acer300.*; \ ntfsfix /devusb/acer300.2 ; \ ntfs-3g -o ro /devusb/acer300.2 /media/acer300.2; \ ntfsfix /devusb/acer300.3 ; \ ntfs-3g -o ro /devusb/acer300.3 /media/acer300.3" ; Now I'll read man 8 automount & other people's alternate solutions on the thread :-) Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Linux Unix Sys. Eng. Consultant Munich http://berklix.eu Mail plain text, No quoted-printable, HTML, base64, MS.doc. Prefix old lines '> ' Reply below old, like play script. Break lines by 80.
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