Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 02:00:53 +0200 From: Joerg Pernfuss <elessar@bsdforen.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Auto mount/unmount USB hard drive Message-ID: <20060509020053.00b14888@loki> In-Reply-To: <1147131644.31831.29.camel@columbus.webtent.org> References: <1147131644.31831.29.camel@columbus.webtent.org>
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--Sig_70SwkJbWtzrCsJXxsSTOFgQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 08 May 2006 19:40:44 -0400 Robert Fitzpatrick <lists@webtent.net> wrote: > I have a USB hard drive mounting and working fine. I have the > following entry in /etc/fstab that allows it to work on boot. The > device loads as /dev/da4. But if I disconnect without unmounting the > device, it detaches, but when plugged back in, it receives a new > device as /dev/da5, which is not what is in fstab of course, yada, > yada, yada. Is there a way I can get it to automatically > mount/unmount the drive while working under the same device id as I > unplug and plug back in? >=20 > /dev/da4s1 /mnt/usb msdos rw,noauto 0 0 If the msdosfs has a label, you could load geom_label.ko and use sth like /dev/msdosfs/usbdisk /mnt/usb msdos rw,noauto 0 0 --=20 | /"\ ASCII ribbon | GnuPG Key ID | e86d b753 3deb e749 6c3a | | \ / campaign against | 0xbbcaad24 | 5706 1f7d 6cfd bbca ad24 | | X HTML in email | .the next sentence is true. | | / \ and news | .the previous sentence was a lie. | --Sig_70SwkJbWtzrCsJXxsSTOFgQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEX9u9H31s/bvKrSQRAtU9AJ9svZI7+GhXfGr6GKqLlYBuIoCbKQCbBGCr uHVhtXPtvYV2h3rIv8prq6w= =0zMT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_70SwkJbWtzrCsJXxsSTOFgQ--
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