On Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 01:10:19 +0200 Tomasz CEDRO <tomek at cedro.info>
wrote:
> I need to configure automount for a testing machine. It seems to work
> fine, except for two issues:
I've never used the automounter, so I can't help you with
that.>
> 1. Mount point does not disappear after device disappears, what makes
> things harder to script when device is gone. automount -c does not
> remove the mountpoint, only restarting the service does. It is a bug
> or feature?
>
> 2. Automounter does not mount USB Pendrive / MSDOSFS devices that does
> not have a parition table. Some USB Drives does not have valid
> partition table, they appear as /dev/da0 and can be mounted with
> mount_msdosfs /dev/da0 /mnt, but they are not recognised by
> automounter.. how can I make it work with such devices?
>
Try newfs_msdos(8).
Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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