Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 18:15:22 +0200 From: CeDeROM <cederom@tlen.pl> To: mfv@bway.net Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: automount usb msdosfs no partition table Message-ID: <CAFYkXj=TT2U3aDyHbZo4%2BmZAwKap2Oidm0xUjOyc_rE9tHutyg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20171009113604.3a6d2455@gecko4> References: <CAFYkXjnmnAxO%2BWSV0a-UjOZn7afoCef1i0O1nq=xZhZViY1zBg@mail.gmail.com> <20171009113604.3a6d2455@gecko4>
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On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 5:36 PM, mfv via freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> wrote: >> On Mon, 2017-10-09 at 01:10 Tomasz CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> wrote: >>Hello world :-) >>I need to configure automount for a testing machine. It seems to work >>fine, except for two issues: >>1. Mount point does not disappear after device disappears, what makes >>things harder to script when device is gone. automount -c does not >>remove the mountpoint, only restarting the service does. It is a bug >>or feature? >>2. Automounter does not mount USB Pendrive / MSDOSFS devices that does >>not have a parition table. Some USB Drives does not have valid >>partition table, they appear as /dev/da0 and can be mounted with >>mount_msdosfs /dev/da0 /mnt, but they are not recognised by >>automounter.. how can I make it work with such devices? >>Any hints appreciated :-) >>Tomek > Hello Tomek, > The port/package, sysutils/automount, is able to do what you want. It > automatically mounts MSDOS or gpart partioned USB thumb drives. Alas, > it does not automatically mount CD/DVDs which require command line > intervention. > My configuration file (/usr/local/etc/automount.conf) differs from the > sample as follow: > MNTPREFIX=/media > USERUMOUNT=YES > ATIME=NO > REMOVEDIRS=YES > USER=<YourLoginName> > NOTIFY=YES > A devd configuration file that was installed by pkg was not changed. > It is located at /usr/local/etc/devd/automount_devd.conf. > My GUI desktop of choice is XFCE4 which has a plugin that recognises > automatically mounted devices. It is possible to use this plugin to > umount a USB thumb drive OR use the command line in a virtual terminal > to umount in the traditional way. > Cheers ... > Marek Hello Marek! Czesc czolem :-) :-) Thank you for your feedback! I will compare the ports configuration with default system automount package.. maybe I will discover a way to auto-mount drives with no partition table which unforunately happens quite often for FAT drives.. -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info
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