exFat and Thunar auto mounting

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On 15/01/2010 13:36, Jerry wrote:
> System Info:
> 
> FreeBSD-7.2
> 
> Xfce 4 Desktop Environment
> version 4.6.1 (Xfce 4.6)
> 
> Thunar 1.0.1
> 
> I seem to be having a problem auto mounting USB media drives. When the
> drive is inserted into the PC, the following is logged to
> the /var/log/messages log:
> 
> Jan 15 07:26:04 scorpio root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x0781 product 0x5530 bus uhub1
> Jan 15 07:26:04 scorpio kernel: umass1: <SanDisk Cruzer, class 0/0, rev 2.00/2.00, addr 2> on uhub1
> Jan 15 07:26:04 scorpio kernel: da4 at umass-sim1 bus 1 target 0 lun 0
> Jan 15 07:26:04 scorpio kernel: da4: <SanDisk Cruzer 8.02> Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device 
> Jan 15 07:26:04 scorpio kernel: da4: 40.000MB/s transfers
> Jan 15 07:26:04 scorpio kernel: da4: 3835MB (7856127 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 489C)
> 
> I use this device to share info between my FreeBSD PCs and my Windows
> PCs. Now, if the device is formatted in regular 'FAT', the drive is
> auto mounted as soon as I insert it into the PC. However, if the drive
> is formatted in 'exFat', this is not true. Is this a bug in Thunar or a
> design decision? The 'exFat' system is far better for storing files on
> removable devices so I would have assumed it would be supported.
> 
> 
Is exFat supported by your kernel? Looking at
http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2009-01/msg02023.html
it seems not.

So it has nothing to do with Xfce.

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis