From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 12 18:42:35 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63859106566C for ; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:42:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net) Received: from mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B4EC8FC12 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:42:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net) Received: from smoochies.rachie.is-a-geek.net (mailhub.lan.rachie.is-a-geek.net [192.168.2.11]) by mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 366CC7E818; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:42:34 -0800 (AKDT) From: Mel Flynn To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:42:33 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (FreeBSD/8.0-CURRENT; KDE/4.2.4; i386; ; ) References: <4A560B28.6080705@tomahawk.com.sg> <20090710184945.GA4323@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20090711083609.32515.qmail@us1.tomahawkonline.net> In-Reply-To: <20090711083609.32515.qmail@us1.tomahawkonline.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200907121042.33314.mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> Cc: Roland Smith , Sagara Wijetunga Subject: Re: Why this flash drive not detected in devd? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:42:35 -0000 On Saturday 11 July 2009 00:36:09 Sagara Wijetunga wrote: > I prefer to handle mounting through an automounter even without KDE > running. I think most users want to handle the disk based on the content not on the device that has the disk. Ideally I would want my desktop to: 1) automount below a root that I can configure 2) when a disk is labeled, use the lowercase version of the label as mountpoint, resolving conflicts using 2-digit serial suffixes. 3) when a disk is not labeled, mount it temporarily using a unique name (f.e. using uuid(3)), provide me with an option to label it a) if yes, label and remount, asking me to abort if this means disk content gets lost b) if no, show me where it's mounted. Of course, YMMV, but I really don't care if my SD card with my photos is in the built-in SD card holder, in the camera itself or on an USB SD card reader I plugged in. I want my photos to be under ~/photos each time. -- Mel