Hello Tim! Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 08:12:46AM -0400 you wrote:
> I have a PC running FreeBSD 6.1. We use a 1GB USB key to transfer files > from our desktop PC's to this purposed machine. > > Problem is, when inserting the key, it may or may not select the same > device name. For ease of use, and too many newbies > that don't want to learn, I'd like the device to show as the same name > every time I mount it. > > I have added /dev/da0 with a mountpoint of /flash in the /etc/fstab, > but don't want to deal with adding additional lines and > mountpoints either. I'd like the command mount /flash to work with any > one of the 10 1GB keys I purchased. You might want to kldload geom_label.ko (or compile your kernel with the appropriate option), then label all the USB key filesystems with the same identifier, and then they can be accessed as /dev/msdosfs/YOUR-LABEL-HERE. The label is the -L argument to newfs_msdos or the value in the `Volume Label' editbox in the Windows formatting program. geom_label also works similarly on other filesystems. For example, my USB flash shows up as /dev/msdosfs/DOUBLEF and /etc/fstab has the line /dev/msdosfs/DOUBLEF /home/df/flash msdosfs rw,noauto,... HTH, -- DoubleF No virus detected in this message. Ehrm, wait a minute... /kernel: pid 56921 (antivirus), uid 32000: exited on signal 9 Oh yes, no virus:)
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