On Thursday 22 December 2005 14:08, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2005-12-20 15:50:29, schrieb David Goodenough: > > This looks like a job for udev, which can assign meaningful names to > > USB storage devices. > > We have droped "udev" because it produced to many errors. Well if you do not wish to use the tool that is designed for the job then I don't think I can help. I use udev for exactly this purpose and it works very well.
David > > > Why it should not free up /dev/sde1 when you unmount it I do not know, > > I have never seen that problem here and I am forever using USB storage > > devices of a variety of types. Have you looked at /var/log/syslog to see > > if there are any errors being shown? > > I have already askt on LKM and the told me, that in usb-storage > it is hardcoded that it can remember which USB device was > mounted to find it late on the same device... > > I have forgotten why it was done, but... (IMHO) its crap! > > Greetings > Michelle > > -- > Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ > ##################### Debian GNU/Linux Consultant ##################### > Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 > 50, rue de Soultz MSM LinuxMichi > 0033/3/88452356 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]