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Index: en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.xml
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da0: <STECH Simple Drive 1.04> s/n WD-WXE508CAN263 detached
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Periph destroyed</screen>
</sect2>
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Automounting removable media</title>
+
+ <note>
+ <para>The -media &man.autofs.5; map is supported
+ starting with &os;&nbsp;10.2-RELEASE.</para>
+ </note>
+
+ <para>To automatically mount the <acronym>USB</acronym> device,
+ uncomment the following line in <filename>/etc/auto_master</filename>:</para>
+ <screen>/media -media -nosuid</screen>
+
+ <para>Second step is to add the following lines to <filename>/etc/devd.conf</filename>;
+ default configuration file contains them, but in the comments section:</para>
+ <screen># Discard autofs caches, useful for the -media special map.
+notify 100 {
+ match "system" "GEOM";
+ match "subsystem" "DEV";
+ action "/usr/sbin/automount -c";
+};
+</screen>
+
+ <para>If autofs and devd are already running, one must reload their
+ configuration by using:</para>
+ <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>service automount reload</userinput>
+&prompt.root; <userinput>service devd reload</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>To enable &man.autofs.5; and &man.devd.8; at boot time, add those lines to
+ <filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename>:</para>
+
+ <programlisting>autofs_enable="YES"
+devd_enable="YES"</programlisting>
+
+ <para>Then &man.autofs.5; and &man.devd.8; can be started by running:</para>
+
+ <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>service automount start</userinput>
+&prompt.root; <userinput>service automountd start</userinput>
+&prompt.root; <userinput>service autounmountd start</userinput>
+&prompt.root; <userinput>service devd start</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>Each file system that can be automatically mounted will appear as a directory
+ in <filename>/media</filename>, named after the filesystem label, or, if the label
+ is missing, after the device node. It will be transparently mounted on first access,
+ and unmounted after some period of inactivity. Automounted drives can also be unmounted
+ by hand by using:</para>
+ <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>automount -fu</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>This mechanism works for any block devices - not just USB sticks, but also
+ optical drives or iSCSI LUNs.</para>
+
+ </sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 xml:id="creating-cds">

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