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Old 7th February 2014
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Default Automounting USB storage devices for desktop

Is there any way to automount USB storage devices to use FreeBSD as a desktop system?

I tried the automount, automounter and volman sysutils/ports. I configured /usr/local/etc and ran services. I just got the manual mount with vmount(volman) through the console.
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Is there some specific issue you have with any of those? People seem to use them effectively.

I prefer to write my own devd script.

Maybe this links will help:

devd automounting
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Old 8th February 2014
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Code:
# automount --version
automount 1.4.3 2013/03/13

# cat /var/log/automount.log
2014-02-09 00:15:24 /dev/da4: attach
2014-02-09 00:15:24 /dev/da4: filesystem not supported or no filesystem

# fdisk /dev/da4
******* Working on device /dev/da4 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=38913 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)

Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=38913 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)

Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 7 (0x07),(NTFS, OS/2 HPFS, QNX-2 (16 bit) or Advanced UNIX)
    start 63, size 625137282 (305242 Meg), flag 80 (active)
	beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
	end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>

# file -b -L -s /dev/da4
x86 boot sector, Microsoft Windows XP MBR, Serial 0x74362755; partition 1: ID=0x7, active, starthead 1, startsector 63, 625137282 sectors, code offset 0xc0

# file -b -L -s /dev/da4s1
x86 boot sector, Microsoft Windows XP Bootloader NTFS, code offset 0x5b, OEM-ID "NTFS    ", sectors/cluster 8, reserved sectors 0, Media descriptor 0xf8, heads 255, hidden sectors 63, dos < 4.0 BootSector (0x80)

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# uname -a
FreeBSD MYHOST 10.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE #0 r260789: Thu Jan 16 22:34:59 UTC 2014     root@snap.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

# pkg info | grep -i ntfs
fusefs-ntfs-2012.1.15          Mount NTFS partitions (read/write) and disk images

# dmesg | tail -10
ugen1.6: <Iomega> at usbus1
umass1: <Iomega External HD, class 0/0, rev 2.00/0.00, addr 6> on usbus1
umass1:  SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x4100
umass1:5:1:-1: Attached to scbus5
da4 at umass-sim1 bus 1 scbus5 target 0 lun 0
da4: <ST332082 0A 3.AA> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device 
da4: 40.000MB/s transfers
da4: 305245MB (625142448 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 38913C)
da4: quirks=0x2<NO_6_BYTE>

# grep devd /var/log/messages
Feb  9 00:15:24 MYHOST devd: Executing '/usr/local/sbin/automount da4 attach'

# kldstat -m fuse
Id  Refs Name
  3    1 fuse

Last edited by divel; 8th February 2014 at 10:41 PM. Reason: Adding kldstat
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This FreeBSD thread may be of some help. The first partition looks to be NTFS and it appears the
# ntfs-3g /dev/ntfs/disklabelgoeshere /mnt/mountpoint works albeit with a decrement in performance.
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Default Automatic?

According to the script, seems to use the label for the type of file system to mount. In my opinion, this is impractical because it requires manual intervention. This is not automatic, do I need to run glabel?. I do not make a script for over a decade and could be wrong.

Automount.sh:
Code:
Line 264: echo $(file -b -L -s ${DEV} | sed -E 's/label:\ \".*\"//g')
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