On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 12:36:51 -0400, H.S. wrote: [..] >I usually use KDE and I see that by unmounting a USB device from its >icon on the desktop, the icon seems to stay as long as the USB stick's >activity LED keeps blinking. For large files (images), I have noticed >that the icon stays on the desktop for quite a few seconds. Never had >corruption on the USB stick. So it appears KDE removes the icon of a >USB device only when the sync is complete. I am surprised Gnome >doesn't do so.
I am surprised too :-)
>BTW, I let udev mount the pluggable devices automatically.
I doubt udev is the party that mounts it. udev creates the device in
/dev, I don't think it can mount things.
AFAIU on GNOME this is what happens when a storage device is plugged in:
1. udev creates a device node in /dev
2. hal is informed about the new device
3. gnome-volume-manager gets informed by hal and calls pmount to mount
the device
/M
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