Bug 219600

Summary:	Path given for automounted drives is incorrect
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	Dan MacDonald <allcoms>
Component:	Books & Articles	Assignee:	Edward Tomasz Napierala <trasz>
Status:	Closed Not A Bug
Severity:	Affects Only Me	CC:	trasz
Priority:	---
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Dan MacDonald 2017-05-27 15:08:35 UTC

Section 17.4.2. Automounting Removable Media ( https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/usb-disks.html ) of the Handbook states:

"Each file system that can be automatically mounted appears as a directory in /media/."

That's not quite correct. Desktop shortcuts (which haven't work for me under Caja or Thunar) are created for each removable drive under /media but the drives are actually mounted under /autofs. 

This is the case under FreeBSD 12 and TrueOS at least. I've not tried it under FreeBSD 11 yet so maybe the handbook is correct for FreeBSD 11 and earlier?

Comment 1 Edward Tomasz Napierala freebsd_committer

2017-05-30 09:23:25 UTC

I'm pretty sure the /media is correct for at least stock FreeBSD.  Could you show me your /etc/auto_master?  Thanks!

Comment 2 Dan MacDonald 2017-05-30 21:14:52 UTC

Very sorry for wasting your time guys - this is a TrueOS setting, not vanilla FreeBSD.