Hi Benjamin, Excerpts from Benjamin Sambale's message of Thu, 07 Oct 2010 19:08 +0200: > Am 07.10.2010 17:32, schrieb Thomas Bächler: > > Am 07.10.2010 17:18, schrieb Benjamin Sambale: > >> I managed to mount my usb stick automatically via udev rules (hal > >> isn't running). However, if I unplug the stick while thunar is > >> open, the umount command hangs. After that I can't even reboot. > >> But if I close thunar before unplugging the stick umount works > >> fine. > > Automatic umounting is neither intended nor safe. The reason is > > obvious: To guarantee data consistency and proper functionality of > > the operating system, the file system has to be removed _before_ > > the underlying device is. This obviously cannot happen > > automatically. > > > > Thanks for the reply. I know that unplugging the stick before > umounting is kind of "unsafe". However, I never had problems with > this and of course I do not unplug while files are get written. By > the way the udev page on archwiki also suggests umounting in a udev > rule. Finally, as I wrote before everything works if I close thunar > before. And using hal it works in all cases anyway. > So, I'm still grateful for further hints. Thunar depends on HAL, so probably it is not correct to use it without HAL, and the following is from http://thunar.xfce.org "Use the correct HAL property to determine whether a given volume or device requires eject" Cheers, Sergey