On 06/03/12 21:05, Polytropon wrote:
Good idea. However, you can do efficient backups of Windows
data by using the ntfsprogs tools. This makes sure they can
even be read under non-Windows systems.
I'll look into that.
if you are using xfce4, then you have most likely got gamin
running as
On Sun, 3 Jun 2012, Gary Aitken wrote:
This almost always means someone (i.e. you) is sitting in the directory.
If you tried this while su'ed and the un-su'ed you were still in the
directory /mnt/goflex, you'd get this message. This may also happen if
someone (i.e. you) is in the directory on
On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 01:56:49 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote:
On 06/03/12 21:05, Polytropon wrote:
Maybe the ganim lock is regarding a device file? Not sure
about that, I'm not using it here.
I'm not sure what the deal is here, but exiting X does solve
the problem. I didn't try just killing the
On Mon, 4 Jun 2012, Gary Aitken wrote:
On 06/03/12 21:05, Polytropon wrote:
Maybe the ganim lock is regarding a device file? Not sure
about that, I'm not using it here.
I'm not sure what the deal is here, but exiting X does solve the
problem. I didn't try just killing the environment by
As nearly as I can tell, I don't have anything pointing at that drive.
Questions:
1. What does the No such file or directory mean from mkdir?
It's a relative dir name, and I'm sitting at a valid dir.
no NTFS driver for FreeBSD is really well done. fusefs based ntfs driver
in my opinion
On 06/04/12 08:15, Warren Block wrote:
gamin opens the directory (of the newly-mounted device) so it can check for
new files being created or files being renamed, and then notify the window
manager, which updates the user's desktop. The open makes the device in-use,
preventing an unmount.
On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 13:15:33 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote:
Can you tell me where any of this is documented?
I can't find squat about gamin.
no man page and no docs in the /usr/local tree
Welcome to the realm of modern software and its aversion
against documentation. :-)
In such cases, you often
On 06/04/12 02:28, Lars Eighner wrote:
This almost always means someone (i.e. you) is sitting in the directory.
If you tried this while su'ed and the un-su'ed you were still in the
directory /mnt/goflex, you'd get this message. This may also happen if
someone (i.e. you) is in the directory on
On Mon, 4 Jun 2012, Gary Aitken wrote:
On 06/04/12 08:15, Warren Block wrote:
gamin opens the directory (of the newly-mounted device) so it can check for new
files being created or files being renamed, and then notify the window manager,
which updates the user's desktop. The open makes the
On 06/04/12 13:40, Polytropon wrote:
On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 13:15:33 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote:
Can you tell me where any of this is documented?
I can't find squat about gamin.
no man page and no docs in the /usr/local tree
Welcome to the realm of modern software and its aversion
against
On Sun, 03 Jun 2012 08:59:11 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote:
Something I'm overlooking here and a lot of questions I can't
seem to find the answers to...
I mounted a usb drive
mount -t ntfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/goflex
Then, as nearly as I can remember...
I then poked around a bit using the
Hi Gary,
if you are using xfce4, then you have most likely got gamin running as well,
this caused the same problem for me when trying to umount an external USB
drive
I resolved my umount problem by including the -f switch
#umount -f /mnt/goflex
Dave Whytcross
- Original Message
On Sun, 3 Jun 2012, Gary Aitken wrote:
Something I'm overlooking here and a lot of questions I can't seem to find
the answers to...
I mounted a usb drive
mount -t ntfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/goflex
Then, as nearly as I can remember...
I then poked around a bit using the xfce4 browser.
I tried to
Gary Aitken free...@dreamchaser.org wrote:
Something I'm overlooking here and a lot of questions I can't seem to find
the answers to...
I mounted a usb drive
mount -t ntfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/goflex
Then, as nearly as I can remember...
I then poked around a bit using the xfce4 browser.
On Sun, 3 Jun 2012, Gary Aitken wrote:
6. And finally, any idea why umount says the device is busy?
xfce uses gamin to scan for new files and directories, but it causes
just this problem. Edit /usr/local/etc/gamin/gaminrc and set it to poll
the device directory:
poll /mnt/*
On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Gary Aitken free...@dreamchaser.org wrote:
Something I'm overlooking here and a lot of questions I can't seem to find
the answers to...
I mounted a usb drive
mount -t ntfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/goflex
Then, as nearly as I can remember...
I then poked around a
Combining several responses to save traffic; thanks all
Something I'm overlooking here and a lot of questions I can't seem to find
the answers to...
I mounted a usb drive
mount -t ntfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/goflex
Then, as nearly as I can remember...
I then poked around a bit using the xfce4
On Sun, 03 Jun 2012 20:28:28 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote:
Consider NTFS being part of the problem, i. e. problems with the
_ntfs file system driver provided by the OS (as it seems you're
not using FUSE tools here - there are fusefs-ntfs and ntfsprogs
in the ports collection which may provide
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