> Got the pendrive working a while ago but I noticed some minor > irratating issues that I can't seem to solve. > > I created a new file /etc/updfstab.conf.local and included into > /etc/updfstab and now my TinyDisk pendrive mounts on /mnt/flash (which > is created as required) when you plug it in. Only irk with that is I > can't control the mount options very well, i.e. I can't set it up so > that the options noatime and users so that > > 1) access times are not written which use up the finite number of > writes that flash has (no point in wasting them) > 2) so that if one user mounts this on the selected machine when > another user comes along they can umount it. > > By default it can only be umounted by the user who mounted it or root > and I don't like su'ing just because someone forgot to remove the > pendrive when they were finished with it. > > Anyone know how to either use updfstab to get it to set these options > or at least some other way, perhaps auto remounting? > > The other problem I've noticed is that if I have the default file > browser open in FC2 it appears that fam is running in the background > and prevents the pendrive from being unmounted until all the file > browser windows are closed at which point fam exits and you can then > unmount the pendrive. Problem is this occurs even if the file browser > was not being used to access the pendrive. I could just be viewing my > own home directory and it would still block the umounting of the > pendrive. > > I think I ran into this before but could never work out what the > problem was when I had a second harddrive of shared partitions that I > would mount and umount as required. Same issue appeared that sometimes > even though nothing appeared to be accessing the harddrive it was not > unmounted. > > Any ideas on how to solve this or is it currently just the way the > system is supposed to behave until either the file browser or fam is > modified? I'm not certain but could the use of noatime have an effect > on this problem? Never mind, I found out that there's a feature request for this for about the last year, plus an additional patch. Looks like it hasn't been included though. -- Darragh Bailey "Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool"
