On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 01:11:47PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
On 2009-07-19_18:57:40, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sun,19.Jul.09, 08:11:21, Paul E Condon wrote:
I have no objection to the status of hal as a required part of a
standard desktop installation, but I do have a question as to how best
to deal with a peculiar situation.
I have several USB hard drives (ones with rotating machinery inside,
not solid state 'disks'). From time to time I need to perform format
maintenance on one of them. In order to do this, I look in /dev to see
what device name has been assigned to the drive, umount it, and do
whatever - e2fsck, tune2fs, etc. But when I'm finish doing
maintenance, how to I remount it without pulling the USB cable,
waiting a while, and reinserting the cable? Is there a console command
that I can type that avoids the extra wear on the fragile little
connectors and plugs? I'm looking for something that retriggers the
look-up of volume label and the creation of a mount-point in /media as
was there before I started mucking about.
This thread seems interesting
Correction:
This thread *is* interesting
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/re-detectmount-usb-hard-drive-623089/
(the first hit when I googled: hal redetect devices)
The solution is in the parted package.
The kernel finds devices in paralell so the device order is random,
udev fixes this with UUIDs and LABELs
Now, hal is deemed essential to Xorg and it messes up simple cases.
now we need parted to solve the problem of hal which was to solve the
problem of udev, which was to solve the kernel problem.
argh.
Of course, all these extra packages and systems will have general bugs
and the possibility of security bugs.
Did somebody call this progress?
Doug.
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