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 18, Accessing Removable Media (Tasks).