Re: (u)mounting of USB devices
On Thursday 22 December 2005 14:08, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Am 2005-12-20 15:50:29, schrieb David Goodenough:
> > This looks like a job for udev, which can assign meaningful names to
> > USB storage devices.
>
> We have droped "udev" because it produced to many errors.
Well if you do not wish to use the tool that is designed for the job then I
don't think I can help. I use udev for exactly this purpose and it works
very well.
David
>
> > Why it should not free up /dev/sde1 when you unmount it I do not know,
> > I have never seen that problem here and I am forever using USB storage
> > devices of a variety of types. Have you looked at /var/log/syslog to see
> > if there are any errors being shown?
>
> I have already askt on LKM and the told me, that in usb-storage
> it is hardcoded that it can remember which USB device was
> mounted to find it late on the same device...
>
> I have forgotten why it was done, but... (IMHO) its crap!
>
> Greetings
> Michelle
>
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