Mounting CDROM, USB Thumb Drive in FreeBSD 6.0 **SOLVED**

[techieMoe]

I recently installed FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE, and I have a couple of very basic questions. First, how do I set up the CDROM drive so that it's mountable/unmountable by regular users, or (for extra points) so that it automounts on insertion of a disc? Note that I can mount/umount just fine as root. That's not the issue.

I've looked at my /etc/fstab and the "options" column has ro, noauto. In Linux I simply needed to add users to the end of this column and all was well. In FreeBSD it tells me that "users" is not a valid option.

I also have a 512MB USB Thumb Drive that I would like to mount. I tried this:

mount_msdosfs /dev/da0 /mnt/usbdisk

Where /dev/da0 was what showed up in my dmesg output. I got an "invalid option" error.

[anomie]

First, how do I set up the CDROM drive so that it's mountable/unmountable by regular users... ?

Haven't tried this, but I found this article that explains how to enable this:

http://www.caia.swin.edu.au/reports/041130A/

The first step is to allow users to run the mount command to actually mount a filesystem and to allow them to run the umount command. This is done by adding the following line to your /etc/sysctl.conf file.

vfs.usermount=1

... It is important to note that while setting this variable allows ALL users to run the mount/umount commands to mount and unmount filesystems, mounting and unmounting will only be possible if:

• The user has read/write permission to the device they wish to mount.
• The user owns the directory they wish to mount the filesystem to.

I also have a 512MB USB Thumb Drive that I would like to mount.

Have you already gone through the handbook steps here?: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO...usb-disks.html

If you're still having trouble I will have a look at my usb flash drive and how I got it working. I don't remember having to do anything special (other than what was noted in the handbook).

[monx]

I had the same problems you do.

I used this for my memorex drive.

mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt

[techieMoe]

I had the same problems you do.

I used this for my memorex drive.

mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt

Thanks. That worked. Also thanks to anomie, those quotes from the Handbook helped as well. I supposed I could have RTMed first, but where's the fun in that?