Michael Biebl wrote: > todays update of grub-pc pulled in os-prober. > After running update-grub, I still had a mounted partition, that was not > unomounted again by os-prober: > /dev/sda10 on /var/lib/os-prober/mount type ext3 (ro) > > If os-prober mounts a partition to examine it, it should unmount it > again. > > FWIW, I was running a GNOME sesssion, and a lot of nautilus windows > popped up during the os-probe run, with the mounted directory opened. > Maybe this could be suppressed somehow... Based on http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~cjwatson/blosxom/ubuntu/2008-04-12-desktop-automount-pain.html I don't think we want to go there. (And that only describes the fun of gnome..) It also seems quite likely that the failure to unmount is due to the desktop environment keeping the drive busy. Why did grub-pc decide to use os-prober by default? The benefit seems fairly slim for the potential complication and pain. Note that os-prober is recommened by grub, and not used if not installed. -- see shy jo
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