Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:50:03 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> To: "mail.list freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: PC-BSD Testing list <testing@lists.pcbsd.org> Subject: Automounting of USB drives - Why is it a problem? Message-ID: <991123400904150450p56d24ba5vcd15de8c34096ab0@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello List,
For some time now, I have been baffled by one thing: Mac OS X somehow has
FreeBSD under the hood. When you connect a USB stick (flash disk, external
drive) to a Mac, it gets automounted, yet the same does not happen on
FreeBSD.
I have seen several questions being asked on this list about this feature,
but the answer is neither here nor there.
There is even a port (sysutils/automounter) that I believe is supposed to
help towards this, but again it's not as easy as it seems to be.
Now my question is just one: Why should it be this difficult for FreeBSD to
have the automount feature within the base system?
If OS X is doing it, Linux is doing it, FreeBSD can do it.
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Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
+254733744121/+254722743223
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