I have no objection to the status of hal as a required part of a standard desktop installation, but I do have a question as to how best to deal with a peculiar situation.
I have several USB hard drives (ones with rotating machinery inside, not solid state 'disks'). From time to time I need to perform format maintenance on one of them. In order to do this, I look in /dev to see what device name has been assigned to the drive, umount it, and do whatever - e2fsck, tune2fs, etc. But when I'm finish doing maintenance, how to I remount it without pulling the USB cable, waiting a while, and reinserting the cable? Is there a console command that I can type that avoids the extra wear on the fragile little connectors and plugs? I'm looking for something that retriggers the look-up of volume label and the creation of a mount-point in /media as was there before I started mucking about. Or is there another way to do the maintenance without umounting? (not likely, I think) -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org