Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:50:38 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com> To: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> Cc: "mail.list freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Automounting of USB drives - Why is it a problem? Message-ID: <49E5E62E.3010906@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <991123400904150450p56d24ba5vcd15de8c34096ab0@mail.gmail.com> References: <991123400904150450p56d24ba5vcd15de8c34096ab0@mail.gmail.com>
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Odhiambo Washington wrote: > 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. > > FreeBSD *can* automount. The problem for the time being is pulling a USB flash drive without unmounting. To automount (assuming you are using something like GNOME or XFCE), you can use the facilities provided by hal and policykit. See this: http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/halfaq.html#q3 (I have also written a complete set of steps for this - currently in Greek only, but I will translate it sooner or later)
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