From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 15 12:40:04 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C659F1065672 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:40:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 740FC8FC0C for ; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:40:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Lu4PK-0005iu-Ds for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:40:02 +0000 Received: from lara.cc.fer.hr ([161.53.72.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:40:02 +0000 Received: from ivoras by lara.cc.fer.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:40:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:38:15 +0200 Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: <991123400904150450p56d24ba5vcd15de8c34096ab0@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig53AB8C55D370A7DD252041D4" X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lara.cc.fer.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090318) In-Reply-To: <991123400904150450p56d24ba5vcd15de8c34096ab0@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Sender: news Cc: testing@lists.pcbsd.org Subject: Re: Automounting of USB drives - Why is it a problem? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:40:05 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig53AB8C55D370A7DD252041D4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Odhiambo Washington wrote: > Hello List, >=20 > For some time now, I have been baffled by one thing: Mac OS X somehow > has FreeBSD under the hood. When you connect a USB stick (flash disk, > external drive) to a Mac, it gets automounted, yet the same does not > happen on FreeBSD. > I have seen several questions being asked on this list about this > feature, but the answer is neither here nor there. > There is even a port (sysutils/automounter) that I believe is supposed > to help towards this, but again it's not as easy as it seems to be. > Now my question is just one: Why should it be this difficult for FreeBS= D > to have the automount feature within the base system? > If OS X is doing it, Linux is doing it, FreeBSD can do it. Of course. Find someone and pay him to do it, just like OS X and Linux did :) (or look at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?devd.conf and http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?amd ) --------------enig53AB8C55D370A7DD252041D4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJ5dU3ldnAQVacBcgRApcqAJ48XfVJ1zjTvz9ZruvrZJ7oaMaM5gCgpIrq 1Ip4ZGLBmw7BDwWo8cB34ac= =rkld -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig53AB8C55D370A7DD252041D4--