On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Philipp Überbacher <hollunder@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Actually I was recently wondering a bit about the unmounting part, > especially with USB sticks. I do have udev rules, taken from the wiki, > in place that handle automatic mounting. There's also a unmounting part, > which afair removes created dirs, but I guess this is only called after > the usb drive is removed. It did happen more than once to me that a file > transfer seemed to be complete, but when I just removed the drive, the > data was gone. Is there a way to provide automatic safe removal? Manual > unmounting is a bit of a PITA, as you need to have a terminal ready, > guess sdN and type a line, where the device guessing part is the most > problematic. I tend to use /dev/sdN to make sure that I remove the > device from all mount points. Thanks for any advice. Well, automounting is really easy, but auto-unmounting (!?) is complex, because what triggers the event is the removal of the device, but after you take it, the S.O. can't do anything about it anymore. I use KDE, so I can mount and unmount easily. Gnome and XFCE also offer good services for that. But without those, I fear that you'll need to issue unmount manually. -- A: Because it obfuscates the reading. Q: Why is top posting so bad? ------------------------------------------- Denis A. Altoe Falqueto -------------------------------------------
