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Date:      Wed, 7 May 2008 13:17:34 +0200
From:      Matthias Apitz <matthias.apitz@oclc.org>
To:        Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Automounting External USB Drive on FreeBSD 7.x
Message-ID:  <20080507111734.GA8250@rebelion.Sisis.de>
In-Reply-To: <991123400805070332s41781589s681bf612d008257c@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <991123400805070332s41781589s681bf612d008257c@mail.gmail.com>

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El día Wednesday, May 07, 2008 a las 01:32:10PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington escribió:

> Hello list,
> 
> I have a requirement to automatically mount a USB disk to, say, ~backup/data
> automatically when the device is plugged to into the machine.
> I can handle/manage the "umount" part.

You could use and configure the amd(8) for this; it will mount the
device (when it is plug'ed in) on 'cd ~backup/data' or any other access,
and will umount it when not busy after some time;

	matthias

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