On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 08:05, Mark Charsley wrote: > I've got a encrypted partition set up under /secure. I'd like the > partition to be unmounted after no-ones used it for, say, 30 minutes. I'm > guessing that there are already tools available to do this, so in order of > preference, can people advise me I've been thinking about this too. I think it would be better to have the screen lock do the umounting, for reasons which may become clear. > - which fstab/mount option to use > - which command line tool to use > - which command line tool will tell me whether any process has a file open > under /secure and/or /dev/hdb6 (so I can write a script to run under cron) /sbin/fuser -m /secure will do the trick. What it will show, though, is that all sorts of things end up holding files and directories open more or less at random. > - which API call to make in order to tell whether any process has a file > open under /secure and/or /dev/hdb6 (so I can write an executable to run > under cron) For a workstation, I think it would be better that when the display is locked, the filesystem is umounted. I've even got some scripts that do it, except I don't know how to hook them into xscreensaver to make it do it. fuser also takes a -k option to cause it to kill all the processes using the file(s), which I use before umounting. Stephen - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
