do you need to unmount it merely because it is not in use, or is it only necessary to mount/unmount on insertion/extraction?
all that mounting and unmountinng will wear out your mount binary, leading to early failure :-) On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 11:56:45 +1300 Douglas Royds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm on Debian unstable. I'm not familiar with Ubuntu, so I don't know whether > it's configured to simply use hotplug, or whether it's using automount. If > you've got Gnome 2.8 (which I haven't - yet), then it's probably using > automount. > > I installed automount (autofs), so that the USB drive would be unmounted a > couple of seconds after I stopped looking at it (i.e. cd'ed out of it, or > closed > the relevant Nautilus window). In this way, it's unmounted before I > physically > detach it, and the buffers will be flushed. Well, that's the theory. Jim > helped > me get it working at the fix-up night, but I noticed last night that the > drive > was never unmounting. > > I just want to know what I'm doing wrong with lsof. Even when I'm looking at > the > USB drive with Nautilus, I can't see any mention of the usb drive in the lsof > output. Consequently, I don't know how to find what's keeping the drive > mounted. > > Rik Tindall wrote: > > Douglas Royds wrote: > > > >> I plugged my USB drive in and viewed its contents using Nautilus. When > >> I closed the Nautilus window, the drive remained mounted indefinitely. > >> > >> Can someone remind me how to find out what's keeping it mounted? > >> > >> I tried lsof, but couldn't find any reference to the usb drive at all, > >> even when I was viewing it with Nautilus. > > > > > > Sorry if it's too simplistic, but what does unplugging the USB drive do? > > And which distro please? > > > > On Ubuntu Nautilus, I found that my USB camera auto-mounted and > > -unmounted flawlessly, plus desktop "sd0" icon popping up and disappearing. > > > > Is there some purpose for keeping unmounted storage attached to the system? > > > > hth, > > rik > > > > > ======================================================================= > This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended > addressee. It is subject to copyright, is confidential and may be > the subject of legal or other privilege, none of which is waived or > lost by reason of this transmission. > If the receiver is not the intended addressee, please accept our > apologies, notify us by return, delete all copies and perform no > other act on the email. > Unfortunately, we cannot warrant that the email has not been > altered or corrupted during transmission. > ======================================================================= -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
