On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 13:45 +0100, Primm wrote: > On Thursday 11 January 2007 13:03, Carlos E. R. wrote: > > The Thursday 2007-01-11 at 12:44 +0100, Primm wrote: > > > Under KDE in 10.2 I can 'safely remove' a disk by right clicking upon its > > > icon. Is there a command line version to do the same? In any case what > > > does it actually do? Can't I just pull the plug and walk away with it? > > > > If you mounted it using the command line, then umount it by command line. > > > > If mounted automatically using kde or gnome, tell kde or gnome to umount > > it. It should be safe to unplug directly (unless you are using nosync > > mode), if you wait for some indication that the disk has finished writing, > > but I never trust it. > > > > > > -- > > Cheers, > > Carlos E. R. > > Hi Carlos y feliz año a ti y a todos. > > No. I don't mount it at the command line. It always appears under /media/disk > when I plug it in so it seems that I have no choice as to where it is > mounted. I tried under yast to mount it as a name rather than a device but > that didn't work. It doesn't really matter as I always seems to work by just > pulling the cable. I just wantead an equivalent of what KDE does in > it' 'remove safely' option just to make sure. >
Use sync at the command line before pulling the plug. This causes all buffers to be written to all disks. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
