Is there anything like pmount for Free/Net/OpenBSD? Not automounting, but e.g. a wrapper for the mount command that (with vfs.usermount enabled) can create a directory in /media or wherever, mount the device to it, and later unmount it and delete the directory, as pmount would do.

(I have looked into FreeBSD's amd-based automatic mounting system... It seems a bit overkill. As for HAL based automount, last I checked it was a complete mess on *BSD. Likewise, OpenBSD's hotplugd requires too much configuration for my liking.)

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Pardon?

Turns out pmount or equivalents are not needed at all. User mounting in *BSD is much simpler and easier than in Linux.

It works like this:

- You set kern.usermount to 1 in sysctl.conf
- You make sure your user is in the group that owns the device nodes you want to mount (usually "operator")
- You run dmesg to find what the disk you plugged in is detected as, then disklabel on the disk to find the partitions
- You mount the partition you want somewhere in your home directory, like so:

sd1a will now be mounted to ~/mnt, and you can access whatever's on it. As long as you don't change the partition layout, you can mount the partition again whenever using the same command.

Edit: umm right, you also have to chmod the relevant nodes to get read/write access. But after that it will work.