FreeBSD 12 is out. This is great! However I had the surprise to find that the automount feature didn’t work in KDE, probably also Gnome, XFCE and any other desktop environment that provide such a feature.<\/p>\n
The culprit was easy to find, the Hardware Abstraction Layer<\/a> has not yet updated to the peculiarities of the latest FreeBSD release.<\/p>\n See, when HAL tries to mount a vfat filesystem on FreeBSD, it adds by default the large<\/i> option which according to FreeBSD 11.2 mount_msdosfs’s manpage<\/a> provide support for very large files (>128GB). This option, however, was removed in FreeBSD 12. Thus automount fails.<\/p>\n To temporarily fix this, edit This was already reported in #221709<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FreeBSD 12 is out. This is great! However I had the surprise to find that the automount feature didn’t work in KDE, probably also Gnome, XFCE and any other desktop environment that provide such a feature. The culprit was easy … Continue reading \/usr\/local\/share\/hal\/fdi\/policy\/10osvendor\/20-storage-methods.fdi<\/code>. Then remove the large<\/i> option in the vfat<\/i> match for FreeBSD. That is:<\/p>\n\r\n <match key=\"volume.fstype\" string=\"vfat\">\r\n <match key=\"\/org\/freedesktop\/Hal\/devices\/computer:system.kernel.name\" string=\"Linux\">\r\n ...\r\n <\/match>\r\n <match key=\"\/org\/freedesktop\/Hal\/devices\/computer:system.kernel.name\" string=\"FreeBSD\">\r\n ...\r\n <!-- <append key=\"volume.mount.valid_options\" type=\"strlist\">large<\/append> -->\r\n <\/match>\r\n<\/pre>\n