Removable Media Features and Benefits

The Solaris environment gives users and software developers a standard interface for dealing with removable media. Referred to as volume management, this interface provides three major benefits:

• By automatically mounting removable media, it simplifies their use. (For a comparison between manual and automatic mounting, see the following section.)

• It enables you to access removable media without having to become superuser.

• It allows you to give other systems on the network automatic access to any removable media on your local system. For more information, see Chapter 2, Accessing Removable Media (Tasks).