[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to mount usb devices?

[Peter Tribble]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 2:06 PM Gary Mills <gary_mills at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 04:24:58PM -0500, Gary Mills wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 08:38:33PM -0700, irixuzer wrote:
> > > I'm new to the list. Ive been trying to mount usb devices. After the
> first
> > > time, which was successful, I've been getting the following:
> >
> > If you are using the dbus service, the usual case with OI, USB devices
> > get mounted automatically.  You don't have to do anything.  The FMRI
> > of that service is svc:/system/dbus:default .
>
> I see I made a mistake in this message.  It's the hal service that
> mounts USB devices automatically.  The FMRI is:
>
>     svc:/system/hal:default
>
> This service is present on all my OI systems, but then I installed
> them initially with the GUI installer.  I don't know if the hal
> service is installed by the text installer.
>

Not quite, hal handles device insertion/removal and wires up the
device tree. It's rmvolmgr that handles the mounting piece.

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