Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 05:40:50 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <parish@magichamster.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stick memory USB Message-ID: <483A3F52.9040907@magichamster.com> In-Reply-To: <4839ADF8.7090805@telenix.org> References: <b0c910f50805251019q2d2b0148r84d86040d111b758@mail.gmail.com> <4839ADF8.7090805@telenix.org>
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Chuck Robey wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > nej ALL wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm new on FreeBSD not on unix. >> >> I want to mount automatically an usb-stick memory into my machine ? >> I get some problems. >> >> Need help. > > You're trying with your devfs stuff to create the file, but you have to realize > it's a device representing a filesystem, not just a file. What you want to read > is the mount and fstab man pages, mount to find out how to mount your memory > stick, and fstab to figure out how to get it to happen automatically. The devfs > stuff is all mistaken, I think, you want that when you want to change > permissions or make softlinks of devices, not to create them in the first place, > least that's how I';'ve always used it, and I know very well that the correct > line in /etc/fstab WILL automount your memory stick. > Are you sure Chuck? The devfs rules stuff is to allow non-root users to mount removable media isn't it? I followed the instructions at http://gphoto.sourceforge.net/doc/manual/permissions-usb.html - the FreeBSD-specific stuff is near the bottom of the page - but I have *exactly* the same problem as the OP with my mobile phone. It is detected as da2 and da3 (phone and memory stick - mine's a SCSI system so da0 and da1 are the HDDs) but only the top-level device nodes (/dev/da[23]) are created. I can try to mount /dev/da3 until I'm blue in the face and it always fails but as soon as I attempt to mount /dev/da3s1 it fails first time but succeeds the second time because the /dev/da3s1 device node gets created on the first (failed) mount attempt. It doesn't matter whether I have an entry in /etc/fstab for /dev/da3s1 or not, it stills fails, but creates the device, on the first attempt. Maybe something has changed? The page I linked to above refers to FreeBSD 5 but I'm running 6.3-STABLE. Regards, Mark
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