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Re: udev and automounting



On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 11:27:35AM -0400, Max Hyre wrote:
> Andrei Popescu wrote:
>> The package usbmount might be what you need.
>
>    The description of usbmount says:
>
> 	This package automatically mounts USB mass
> 	storage devices (typically  USB pens) when they
> 	are plugged in, and unmounts them when they are
> 	removed.
>
>    Does this limit filesystems to FAT?  FAT doesn't care if you rip it out 
> without doing any cleanup.  If you've formatted your thumbdrive as an ext2 
> filesystem, how can it be properly unmounted if you simply unplug it?  
> Won't that mean you have to run fsck every time you plug it in again?

maybe mount with sync instead of async, though mount warns of
life-shortening possibilities with flash stuff. probably a good idea
to go for noatime also to help coutneract that. Both of those would
minimise the risk of damage -- so long as the current process was
done, you could pull it. that just a guess. check man mount.



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