Re: GNOME Shell can't unmount my USB key
On Tue, 09 Feb 2016, Me wrote:
> Le lundi 08 février 2016 à 13:50 -0800, Patrick Bartek a écrit :
> > Perhaps in days gone by: my OS prior to Wheezy -- Fedora 12 --
> > was like that. Anything USB had to be mounted/unmounted manually.
> > What a pain. And if you unplugged without unmounting . . . Yes,
> > things could break. But with Wheezy which I've been using for 3+
> > years have had no problems with just plug/unplug. The only
> > precaution is to check the drive activity light isn't flickering.
>
> Just because you didn't lose data doesn't mean it's safe. All systems
> are known to use caching, and GNOME frequently informs me, after
> having asked to unmount my key, that I shouldn't unplug it until it
> has finished to write data on it.
Yes, I know about caching, but on my system read/writes to removable
devices are almost instantaneous. So, there's been no problems.
However, I did write my on udev rule to do the mounting/unmounting, and
this was after reseaching expert advice on how to do it properly. But
as with any advice, you should do what's best for you.
> Additionally, I don't have any LED on this drive, which makes it even
> more dangerous.
Then my method won't work well for you.
B
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