Re: udev and automounting
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 08:55:23 -0700
Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
> 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.
>From the usbmount README:
> Vfat Filesystems
> ----------------
>
> Filesystems of type vfat are not considered by default, despite being
> popular for many USB devices, because the Linux kernel does not yet
> fully implement sync-mounting for this filesystem type. This means that
> you risk losing data or even corrupting the filesystem if you remove the
> medium before all data has been written to it. If you include vfat in
> the FILESYSTEMS configuration variable, you *MUST* run the 'sync'
> command before removing the device.
So ext works via sync-mounting, and vfat requires manual syncing.
> A
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