Try using autofs. You can have it set up so that it doesn't even show in a directory listing, then when you cd to it, it automagically mounts, then unmounts after you've left it. Like have in your /etc/auto.misc crypt -fstype=reiserfs :/dev/loop0 and in your /etc/auto.master /misc /etc/auto.misc --timeout=60 Of course you have to already have run losesetup. "crypt" will be a dir in /misc but anyone not having permissions won't even be able to see any dir there. On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 09:05:00PM +0000, 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 > - 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) > - 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) > > Many TIA > > Mark > - > Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/ -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com "War is just a racket ... something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small group knows what its about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses." --- Major General Smedley Butler, 1933 "Our overriding purpose, from the beginning through to the present day, has been world domination - that is, to build and maintain the capacity to coerce everybody else on the planet: nonviolently, if possible, and violently, if necessary. But the purpose of US foreign policy of domination is not just to make the rest of the world jump through hoops; the purpose is to faciliate our exploitation of resources." - Ramsey Clark, former US Attorney General http://www.thesunmagazine.org/bully.html - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
