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Subject: Re: Automounting External USB Drive on FreeBSD 7.x
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Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I have a requirement to automatically mount a USB disk to, say, ~backup/data
> automatically when the device is plugged to into the machine.
> I can handle/manage the "umount" part.
> 

Have a look at:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=122726

This port waiting for commit for ~3 weeks, but it sounds like it's what you want.