Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 19:16:33 +0000 From: Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: automount documentation Message-ID: <6b617ae7-861d-eb33-dbd1-6ec734e3e53f@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <YCY2fmkmqCE9w7uL@mithril.foucry.net> References: <CAN6yY1sqfvfhPhue7qb71TUdamFiFXvgS9sL-sA90qNfEitf-Q@mail.gmail.com> <YCY2fmkmqCE9w7uL@mithril.foucry.net>
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On 12/02/2021 08:04, Jacques Foucry wrote: > Le jeudi 11 févr. 2021 à 21:08:48 (-0800), Kevin Oberman à écrit: > Hello, > >> Is there documentation somewhereon setting up automount/automountd? The >> only one I found is an old Forums post on a rather old version of automount >> from when it was a port.. Beyond that, the man pages are useful, but not >> really what I was hoping for. I searched and found no mention of automount >> in the Handbook at all. >> >> I'm pretty sure that I had a tutorial a year ago when I tried setting up >> automount, but I really didn't need it then. Now it would be extremely >> handy. > > Have seen this: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2018/10/11/freebsd-desktop-part-17-automount-removable-media/ > I recently edited my /etc/rc.conf to include these lines: # enable autofs(8), sysutils/automount or sysutils/dsbmd -- no more than one # <https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2018/10/11/freebsd-desktop-part-17-automount-removable-media/comment-page-1/#comment-18391>; autofs_enable="NO" # <https://freeshell.de/~mk/projects/dsbmd.html>; dsbmd_enable="NO" I'm currently experimenting with sysutils/automount (not to be confused with the automount feature that's integral to FreeBSD) on FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT. As far as I can tell it works, but it's not entirely compatible with the Removable Devices feature of KDE Plasma. In the example below, a Dolphin window to the file system opened automatically shortly after connecting the USB drive: % tail -f -n 0 /var/log/messages Feb 12 19:07:24 mowa219-gjp4-8570p kernel: ugen0.8: <Verbatim STORE N GO> at usbus0 Feb 12 19:07:24 mowa219-gjp4-8570p kernel: umass1 on uhub1 Feb 12 19:07:24 mowa219-gjp4-8570p kernel: umass1: <Verbatim STORE N GO, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 7> on usbus0 Feb 12 19:07:24 mowa219-gjp4-8570p kernel: umass1: SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0xc100 Feb 12 19:07:24 mowa219-gjp4-8570p kernel: umass1:4:1: Attached to scbus4 Feb 12 19:07:24 mowa219-gjp4-8570p kernel: da1 at umass-sim1 bus 1 scbus4 target 0 lun 0 Feb 12 19:07:24 mowa219-gjp4-8570p kernel: da1: <Verbatim STORE N GO 5.00> Removable Direct Access SCSI device Feb 12 19:07:24 mowa219-gjp4-8570p kernel: da1: Serial Number 070B29D2DF235960 Feb 12 19:07:24 mowa219-gjp4-8570p kernel: da1: 40.000MB/s transfers Feb 12 19:07:24 mowa219-gjp4-8570p kernel: da1: 3815MB (7814304 512 byte sectors) Feb 12 19:07:24 mowa219-gjp4-8570p kernel: da1: quirks=0x2<NO_6_BYTE> ^C % lsblk da1 DEVICE MAJ:MIN SIZE TYPE LABEL MOUNT da1 2:33 3.7G GPT - - <FREE> -:- 47K - - - da1p1 2:34 3.7G ms-basic-data gpt/Basic /media/da1p1 <FREE> -:- 1.5M - - - % pkg info --list sysutils/automount automount-1.7.2: /usr/local/etc/automount.conf.sample /usr/local/etc/devd/automount_devd.conf /usr/local/sbin/automount /usr/local/share/licenses/automount-1.7.2/BSD2CLAUSE /usr/local/share/licenses/automount-1.7.2/LICENSE /usr/local/share/licenses/automount-1.7.2/catalog.mk % cat /usr/local/etc/automount.conf USERUMOUNT=YES ATIME=NO REMOVEDIRS=YES FM="dolphin" USER=grahamperrin %
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