SYNOPSIS

devd-mount [/dev/]partition

ARGUMENTS

device  Name of device node, with or without /dev/ prefix

DESCRIPTION

devd-mount is a script for mounting external media on FreeBSD. It is normally invoked by /usr/local/etc/devd/devd-mount.conf, which is run by the devd(8) service upon creation of a new device node such as /dev/da0. This typically occurs when a USB drive is inserted, for example.

The device name should contain a filesystem recognized by FreeBSD or by fusefs, such as EXFAT, FAT32, FAS16, NTFS, ISO 9660 (CDs), UDF (DVDs), of UFS (FreeBSD native).

The mount point for a device is /media/device-name, e.g. /dev/da0p1 is mounted on /media/da0p1.

The configuration file /usr/local/etc/devd-mount.conf can be used to control ownership and permissions on the mount point, and the program invoked upon a successful mount. Defaults are shown below.

MEDIA_MANAGER=/usr/local/bin/qmediamanager
GROUP=operator
MODE=775

The auto-automount-setup(1) script, part of sysutils/auto-admin will configure a FreeBSD system to use devd-mount.

RETURN VALUES

0 upon successful mount, non-zero error codes otherwise

EXAMPLES

devd-mount da0p1

FILES

/usr/local/etc/devd-mount.conf
/usr/local/etc/devd/devd-mount.conf

SEE ALSO

devd(8), mount(8), qmediamanager(1), npmount(1)