Re: GNOME Shell can't unmount my USB key
On Tue 09 Feb 2016 at 09:00:50 (-0800), Patrick Bartek wrote:
> 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.
Apart from not pulling the plug early, what pitfalls are you avoiding
with your carefully crafted udev rule?
Cheers,
David.
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