Nick Rout wrote:
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:
'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.
hth,
rik
Sounds like a reinstall with Ubuntu is simplest. Would this present any
problems Douglas?
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