From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 15 14:37:48 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 82FE8106566C for ; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:37:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F41378FC14 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:37:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Lu6FF-0002H3-4p for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:37:45 +0000 Received: from lara.cc.fer.hr ([161.53.72.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:37:45 +0000 Received: from ivoras by lara.cc.fer.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:37:45 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:37:35 +0200 Lines: 49 Message-ID: References: <991123400904150450p56d24ba5vcd15de8c34096ab0@mail.gmail.com> <49E5E62E.3010906@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigCA76CC8C3EAF5E0274528AD1" X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lara.cc.fer.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090318) In-Reply-To: <49E5E62E.3010906@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Sender: news Subject: Re: 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 14:37:48 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigCA76CC8C3EAF5E0274528AD1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Manolis Kiagias wrote: > 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, exte= rnal >> 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 feat= ure, >> 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 FreeB= SD to >> have the automount feature within the base system? >> If OS X is doing it, Linux is doing it, FreeBSD can do it. >> >> =20 > FreeBSD *can* automount. The problem for the time being is pulling a US= B > flash drive without unmounting. This works better in 7-STABLE. --------------enigCA76CC8C3EAF5E0274528AD1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJ5fEvldnAQVacBcgRAjfQAKDmBX8X+l1+EC1cCDyEJ+iEZPKIZQCeO5QB CXLa+ApSww56ZAAm+jjPMmM= =pEAn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigCA76CC8C3EAF5E0274528AD1--