On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 14:45, Ken Rossman wrote: > > I know there are plenty of folks that use removable USB flash media > > and/or USB external drives, so I'm hoping someone has solved this. I'm > > attempting to have automount mount a Maxtor external USB drive when > > it's > > plugged in, and unmounted when it's unplugged. > > I'm sure someone else will give you the right answer / missing pieces > for the automount part, but if you are implying that you want the drive > to automatically be unmounted just by unplugging it, I don't think that > is possible. I believe that Linux will need the chance to write out any > memory-cached data to the drive before it "goes away" first... Good point, duh. The reason I was asking is that I'm considering replacing a client's tape with a swapping of external USB drives. After further consideration, I'll just have the backup script perform the mounting/umounting, leaving it unmounted for the rest of the time it's unused. P.S. Has anyone tried these "pocket" USB drives that I'm seeing? Those would be a really nice alternative to hauling around full-size drive enclosures. Thanks, -- Jason Dixon, RHCE DixonGroup Consulting http://www.dixongroup.net -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
