On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 13:57:42 -0600, John W. M. Stevens wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 12:36:51PM -0400, H.S. wrote:
>> Magnus Therning wrote:
>> >I'm running a GNOME desktop on a Debian Sid system.
>> >
>> >I've noticed that if I right-click a USB memory stick icon on the
>> >desktop and choose "Unmount Volume" the icon disappears immediately.
>> >However the device may be busy in the background, and if I remove the
>> >stick too early files copied to the stick may not "have arrived yet"
>> >(the sync isn't done yet).
>> >
>> >I've found two ways around it:
>> >
>> > 1. Unmount in a shell using `pumount'.
>> > 2. Keep a system monitor in the panel and have it show disk activity.
>> >
>> >Is there any other way?
>> >I'd kind of like a brief notification at the end informing me that the
>> >device is fully unmounted.
>> >
>> >/M
>> >
>>
>> I usually use KDE and I see that by unmounting a USB device from its
>> icon on the desktop, the icon seems to stay as long as the USB stick's
>> activity LED keeps blinking. For large files (images), I have noticed
>> that the icon stays on the desktop for quite a few seconds. Never had
>> corruption on the USB stick. So it appears KDE removes the icon of a USB
>> device only when the sync is complete. I am surprised Gnome doesn't do
>> so.
>
>It does on my system. The icon will not be removed from the Gnome
>destop until umount completes.
Hmmm, what system is that?
Mine is a Debian Sid.
How do you unmount your device? In terminal or by right-clicking the
icon on the desktop?
>This, however, may be the issue: your system may be misconfigured, or
>this undesirable behaviour may be a result of the file system you are
>using on your USB device.
>
>So the question is: what file system do you have on the device that
>disappears immediately when you umount it, and if applicable, what are
>your fstab options for this device?
>
>Finally, how do you have your system configured to automount hot
>attached mass storage devices?
Two partitions on the USB stick. One with vfat, one with ext2.
No entry in fstab, udev/hal/g-v-m/pmount does the mounting when I plug
in the device.
/M
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