Auto mount/unmount USB hard drive

[Joerg Pernfuss]

On Mon, 08 May 2006 19:40:44 -0400
Robert Fitzpatrick <lists at webtent.net> wrote:

> I have a USB hard drive mounting and working fine. I have the
> following entry in /etc/fstab that allows it to work on boot. The
> device loads as /dev/da4. But if I disconnect without unmounting the
> device, it detaches, but when plugged back in, it receives a new
> device as /dev/da5, which is not what is in fstab of course, yada,
> yada, yada. Is there a way I can get it to automatically
> mount/unmount the drive while working under the same device id as I
> unplug and plug back in?
> 
> /dev/da4s1     /mnt/usb        msdos   rw,noauto       0       0

If the msdosfs has a label, you could load geom_label.ko and use sth
like

/dev/msdosfs/usbdisk	/mnt/usb	msdos	rw,noauto	0	0

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