Date: Sun, 20 May 2018 23:52:30 +0200 From: EBFE <ebfe@inbox.ru> To: Harry Schmalzbauer <freebsd@omnilan.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: removable storage usability, devd, hald and X11-desktop in general Message-ID: <20180520235230.70bab894@inbox.ru> In-Reply-To: <5beffba2-d2d5-689a-9cb1-054379f55adf@omnilan.de> References: <5beffba2-d2d5-689a-9cb1-054379f55adf@omnilan.de>
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On Sat, 19 May 2018 20:35:59 +0200 Harry Schmalzbauer <freebsd@omnilan.de> wrote: Hi, > Biggest question: How are useres expected to handle removable media? >=20 > I'm a happy user of autofs(5) in several environments (mostly for NFS=20 > mounts), but I'm not aware of any helper tool which enables _users_ > to unmount before pulling the UFD. > I've heard of PC-BSD and Lumina (see later why I haven't really tried=20 > out the modern "light" desktops) and I think I remember having read > they utilize devd(8).=C2=A0 But again, how to unmount? There is a nice little daemon: sysutils/dsbmd=20 (see https://freeshell.de/~mk/projects/dsbmd.html and /usr/local/etc/dsbmd.conf.sample) with a simple GUI sysutils/dsbmc and cli (sysutils/dsbmc-cli) clients. It supports automounting using devd and/or polling and automatic or manual unmounting.=20
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