On Sun,19.Jul.09, 08:11:21, Paul E Condon wrote: > I have no objection to the status of hal as a required part of a > standard desktop installation, but I do have a question as to how best > to deal with a peculiar situation. > > I have several USB hard drives (ones with rotating machinery inside, > not solid state 'disks'). From time to time I need to perform format > maintenance on one of them. In order to do this, I look in /dev to see > what device name has been assigned to the drive, umount it, and do > whatever - e2fsck, tune2fs, etc. But when I'm finish doing > maintenance, how to I remount it without pulling the USB cable, > waiting a while, and reinserting the cable? Is there a console command > that I can type that avoids the extra wear on the fragile little > connectors and plugs? I'm looking for something that retriggers the > look-up of volume label and the creation of a mount-point in /media as > was there before I started mucking about. This thread seems interesting http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/re-detectmount-usb-hard-drive-623089/ (the first hit when I googled: hal redetect devices) Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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