Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 15:46:24 +0200 From: Bram Kuijper <a.l.w.kuijper@rug.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: usb storage device mounting problems Message-ID: <44AFB730.5090905@rug.nl>
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Hi all, I got some problems with mounting my usb device. I did all the stuff according to point 9.22 in the FreeBSD FAQ, but I still cannot mount my usb storage key (a sandisk cruzer mini 256 MB) as an ordinary user, without having to change the group owner as a root. Adding the needed lines to devfs.conf doesn't seem to help in retaining the settings across multiple reboots. I run FreeBSD-stable 6.1 in /etc/sysctl.conf I added: vfs.usermount=1 I added to my etc/devfs.conf the following lines: own /dev/da0s1 root:usb perm /dev/da0s1 0666 I added myself, the ordinary user to the group usb and checked if that worked out by doing id $myusername: uid=1002($myusername) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel), 1002(usb), 1004(cvs) so I am in the group usb, and if everything went allright, also the folder /dev/da0s1 should now owned by the group usb. So I'll reboot and plugin the device. I reboot and plugin my usb key. Check if things are recognized using usbdevs: $ devfs addr 1: UHCI root hub, Intel addr 2: product 0x3108, vendor 0x04b3 addr 1: UHCI root hub, Intel addr 2: Cruzer Mini, SanDisk Corporation seems it has been recognized. Now I check the user rights on dev/da0s1 $ su $ ls -aln /dev | grep da0 crw-r----- 1 0 5 0, 107 Jul 8 15:17 da0 crw-r----- 1 0 5 0, 108 Jul 8 15:17 da0s1 crw-r----- 1 0 5 0, 108 Jul 8 15:17 da0s1 alas, despite the changes made in devfs.conf, the group in which da0s1 is in, is still another one than the usb-group (which has 1002) as a group identifier. So still not able to mount the device as an ordinary user. anybody advice on how to tweak my devfs.conf, so that it works? thanks, Bramhome | help
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