On 0519T2035, Harry Schmalzbauer wrote: > Hello, > > after 10 years I replaced my personal desktop machine (FreeBSD8 -> > FreeBSD12). > While aware of OS progress, I haven't followed any development on the > X11 planet. > > To my surprise, things were in better shape 10 years ago, regarding > desktop usability. > > Biggest question: How are useres expected to handle removable media? > > I'm a happy user of autofs(5) in several environments (mostly for NFS > mounts), but I'm not aware of any helper tool which enables _users_ to > unmount before pulling the UFD. > I've heard of PC-BSD and Lumina (see later why I haven't really tried > out the modern "light" desktops) and I think I remember having read they > utilize devd(8). But again, how to unmount?
Me, I just use three second timeout for autounmountd, like this: autounmountd_flags="-t 3 -r 3". _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
