From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 15 11:50:05 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 1381E1065676 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:50:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from odhiambo@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f164.google.com (mail-bw0-f164.google.com [209.85.218.164]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F2D58FC08 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:50:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from odhiambo@gmail.com) Received: by bwz8 with SMTP id 8so2906217bwz.43 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:50:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=5Rh4Z7ZJqPQCDYQ7lkWv4YEZEzzdOTP1FrNvaui41IU=; b=WkEAsFcxcaQqURBKlNl7r1PRSVvpeZx4eRZvQ4Uj0AidAvwXNiYfGJ2Dmm0vaZbHqE yL67Q4C2hb+X3vIS0T/61QHro30MYPfzyjE1HRPCSo5013l8c0V/Ih+TFr7aTiApJBBv q5C3+9z4trubCmHmSXMUaUV1c5u/eoXHWhhMc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; b=WJTmwlPmgx0auo5B1hwtjHEqQNvtdjtvab96giItEX7iwgu8B0dk7azYSf0u1E4nKn 9eg0j4MMEx8Lw6Ghj304TaBSLdg43XC9d2PH9r85ilpF/XEG+jsAweFigT3BVNrjskN+ 09BFzsnTj/oHp1FMQlmL7kLIGH0dsbcBRoCg4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.126.203 with SMTP id d11mr40029fas.8.1239796203313; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:50:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:50:03 +0300 Message-ID: <991123400904150450p56d24ba5vcd15de8c34096ab0@mail.gmail.com> From: Odhiambo Washington To: "mail.list freebsd-questions" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: PC-BSD Testing list Subject: Automounting of USB drives - Why is it a problem? 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: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:50:05 -0000 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. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." -- Mark Twain