How to properly eject / remove hotswappable sata drive?
Hi, I found this article: http://blog.shadypixel.com/safely-removing-external-drives-in-linux/ It explains how properly to unmount, eject and remove sata hdd drives from linux machines. The issue is that I can't find scsiadd tool for Fedora. What is the correct and proper way to unmount and remove hotswappable sata drives with fedora tools? Cheers, Valent. -- follow me - www.twitter.com/valentt http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com linux, anime, spirituality, wireless, scuba, linuxmce smart home, zwave ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic, MSN: valent.turko...@hotmail.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: How to properly eject / remove hotswappable sata drive?
On 10/10/2011 03:32:33 AM, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I found this article: http://blog.shadypixel.com/safely-removing-external-drives-in-linux/ It explains how properly to unmount, eject and remove sata hdd drives from linux machines. The issue is that I can't find scsiadd tool for Fedora. What is the correct and proper way to unmount and remove hotswappable sata drives with fedora tools? Cheers, Valent. You will have to build it from source. What appears to be the primary site is down, but you can find it here: http://fossies.org/linux/misc/scsiadd-1.97.tar.gz/ -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: How to properly eject / remove hotswappable sata drive?
On 10/10/2011 12:24 PM, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: You will have to build it from source. What appears to be the primary site is down, but you can find it here: http://fossies.org/linux/misc/scsiadd-1.97.tar.gz/ Is scsiadd really necessary ? I tried using umount then eject but I get this error: eject: device /dev/sdb doesn't have a removable or hotpluggable flag Aren't all sata drives removable and hotpluggable? For non raid drives all I ever have to do is umount the drives partitons. Once that is successful the drive can be removed. However, if you have smartctl running, it will start to complain until you put the drive back in. Or you could restart smartctl with the drive removed. With raid drives I user mdadm to first fail the partitions on the drive to be remove/replaced, if they haven't failed already. (Use cat /proc/mdstat to see current status of all raid drives.) Then use mdadm to remove those partitions from the raid drive. Then the drive can be removed/replaced. Emmett -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: How to properly eject / remove hotswappable sata drive?
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 21:24:28 +0200 valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: Aren't all sata drives removable and hotpluggable? Nope, just esata drives (don't know exactly what the difference is, but there is a difference of some kind). -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Re: How to properly eject / remove hotswappable sata drive?
On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 21:24 +0200, valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: Aren't all sata drives removable and hotpluggable? No. Both the drive and the host interface have to support it. You should be able to expect ESATA (external SATA) connected drives and hosts to support it, because external drives need hotplug support. You should expect internal ones not to, and consider it a bonus if they do. How do you tell ESATA apart from SATA? Well, for one thing, there's different plugs. The ESATA plug is slightly more robust, as it needs to be, to survive being plugged and unplugged, a lot. Unfortunately, I don't think it's robust enough. As far as properly unmounting drives go. In this day and age, you shouldn't have to go through some other utility. You should be able to click on a drive's desktop icon and unmount/eject it from there. Also, if a drive has buttons, you should be able to press something on the drive to initiate a disconnect. If not, the designer is a cretin, because users expect to be able to simply connect and disconnect things, without having to go through some procedure. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
