On 02/11/05, Robert Locke <lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 12:58 -0500, Tony Nelson wrote:
> At 1:14 PM +0000 11/2/05, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >how do I configure gnome-volume-manager to auto-umount USB devices when
> >they're
> >unplugged?
> >
> >I understand that pulling ext2 file systems without umounting is a bad
> >idea, but it should be feasible with ext3 and vfat file system that
> >have been mounted synchronously.
> >
> >I don't really mind this myself, but I have a hard time explaining my
> >parents the fine points of (dis)mounting filesystems. I believe
> >Windows XP handles unplug events automatically.
>
> You want the OS to flush its buffers to the disk after the disk is
> unplugged? Uhh, how?
Never used it, but are we talking about the "sync" or "dirsync" mount
option here?
--Rob
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Windows does in fact NOT do this automatically. They display a warning about not removing the software until you have unloaded it, then you may "unplug it safely".
They have quite a dialogue system happening about this.
It is easier in Linux: you just click the icon to mount, then click again to unmount.
