![]() If one does that, then the kernel will do no writing to the new device, and only the amount of reading necessary to determine what the partitions or slices on the new device are: the kernel has to read /dev/da0 to get the MBR or GPT, and be able to create /dev/da0s1 or /dev/da0p1 from that read. ) to do very little when a new block device shows up, namely only to detect the new hardware, and create device nodes (for example /dev/da0 and perhaps /dev/da0s1) for it. ![]() ![]() One can configure a Unix system (like FreeBSD, or like a Mac, or Linux, or. To begin with, a USB stick (or hot-plug SATA or similar hardware) is a device, specifically a block storage device. When you say "recognized", what do you mean by this? You say (abbreviated for clarity) "A USB stick is hot-plugged, recognized, and its permission is rw-r-r-". You need to think about this question at different levels.
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