mgh;211922 Wrote: > I have been experimenting, and made some progress. Using LinuxMint. > > If I right-click and unmount the external drive before turning off the > PC, everything stays good, no broken links. > > With Ubuntu I was not always able to unmount by right-clicking. With > LinuxMint, I occasionally get two different desktop icons for the same > external drive. When that happens I am out of luck, nothing to do but > reboot and hope for the best. > > Thanks
So it appears if you unmount nicely everything's OK then? I presume that when you forcibly unmount, the OS still thinks the files are there and tries to follow the links. When it can't find anything, it invalidates the links. If the OS knows the drive has been unmounted, it knows not to follow the links. Incidentally, in Ubuntu 7.04, you can't unmount a drive by right-clicking. In addition to cut/copy/paste/properties etc, you get "Eject", which doesn't do anything. You have to type "sudo umount /dev/" and the drive numbers, in my case sda1 and sda2. -- Mark Lanctot 'Sean Adams' Response-O-Matic checklist, patent pending!' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=200910&postcount=2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36521 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
