Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

[Bonnel Christophe <mage.tophinus@free.fr>]

Hi,

I use gkrellm with the default plugin systemfile. It allows you mount 
and unmount the drives you have specified with a button. The other 
advantage is that, if you mount the partition with another tool, gkrellm 
will detect it and still can be use to unmount it. Another information 
that can be interesting : gkrellm show you the space used on the 
partition (with number or graphical), so you can evaluate the space left 
on your drive.

I have also fully migrated to Linux there is 4-5 years and my wife uses 
this method. I learn to to my brother, my mother, ... everyone 
understand, it is not difficult. The big disavantage for gkrellm, in 
your case, is that it will not displayed only the mounted tool but the 
%cpu, the disk activity, ethernet activity, .... You can disactive 
theses options but i am not sure that all can be swith off at the same time.

Hope this help
Christophe


Daniel Burrows a écrit :
> On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 05:21:17PM -0700, pedxing <pedxing@gmail.com> was heard to say:
>   
> > On May 17, 8:50 pm, Douglas Allan Tutty <dtu...@porchlight.ca> wrote:
> >     
> > > To me, ideally, nothing would be written to the flash at all until
> > > either sync or umount.  Yes, I wait.
> > >       
> > Yes, I also wait.  Because KDE doesn't give the user any indication of
> > how long to wait, the user has to drop to a terminal, run a sync
> > command, and wait for the prompt to come back to get any indication of
> > when it is ok to remove.
> >     
>
>   You may want to take a look at Gnome.  In Gnome, removable devices
> are handled like this: an icon appears on the desktop when the device
> is inserted.  When you're done with the device, you click on the icon and
> select "safely remove".  A window pops up saying "removing device..." or
> somesuch, and when it goes away it's safe to remove your device (and the
> icon on the desktop is gone).  I don't use Gnome much except as an xterm
> launcher, so I can't say more than that, but it looks like this aspect is
> pretty well-designed.
>
>   I couldn't believe that KDE doesn't do something like this nowadays --
> Gnome has been doing this for at least a couple years IIRC -- so I
> downloaded and installed KDE on my desktop to try it out.  Apparently
> the only way to get an icon for your removable device is to click on the
> "services" tab (intuitively represented by ... a flag?), which shows
> attached devices under "storage media" and lets you "safely remove"
> the device.  A little green triangle disappears after the device is
> unmounted, which I didn't even notice until I'd mounted/unmounted it
> several times.
>
>   So, the functionality is present in both UIs, but KDE has chosen a
> rather obtuse way of getting at it, IMO.
>
>   Daniel
>
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