On Fri, 06 Sep 2002 16:46:55 +0100, Alastair Scott wrote: > --=-uv4Dj+q907OgonNFRe5O > Content-Type: text/plain > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 14:25, H. Narfi Stefansson wrote: > >> I thought the whole idea was that this should be automated now. Does >> the= > =20 >> 'automated' part only apply to the mounting and not to the unmounting? >> In other words, is this a feature or is this a bug? > > It looks like a bug, and I reported it during the 'great mail server > outage' but it appears that that post never got through. So ... > > I have a Sony Clie PEG-425T and used to mount its memory stick 'by hand' > from the command line as /dev/sda1.=20 > > With the automated facility, under Gnome I see a 'removable' icon on the > desktop (with the rather inappropriate appearance of a hard disk!) but: > > i. the icon appears to be stuck there forever and never goes away, even > when the Clie is taken out of the cradle and the PC rebooted without it;
Indeed.. Because it is using supermount.. No problem here.. > ii. the 'Unmount Volume' command has no effect. In supermount mode, "Unmount Volume" doesn't do anything since you are not root.. I'll try to hide it (no garantee) > iii. the entry in /etc/fstab looks like > > none /mnt/removable supermount > dev=3D/dev/sda1,fs=3Dauto,--,iocharset=3Diso8859-15,codepage=3D850,umask=3D= > 0 0 0 > > This looks OK, but doesn't explain the unmounting not happening: I have to > issue umount -a /dev/sda1 from the command line to actually do it. There is no unmounting because usb-storage doesn't remove the /dev/sda1 entry when cli� is no longer connected.. Therefore, there is no way to know the device is here or not :(( -- Frederic Crozat MandrakeSoft
