Paulo E Condon: > I think that the device file is NOT removed. This is what I > observe. When I umount /dev/sdxn, the mount-point /media/MMMPPP is > removed, and the device file is remains. This is GOOD because the > reason for umount is so that I can run e2fsck. So, from observation, a > supposition held by some is false.
It was not a supposition, but what I see here. I am sorry, I think I was not clear enough when I entered this thread: I have a similar problem, but it is not really the same thing. I will do more tests soon (I am not at the same machine now), but after I had "removed safely" the device, in kde, I had no more device file - or better, just the main one (/dev/sdf), and both file and fsck.vfat complained that the file was not available (I don't know what the exact wording was). And so I could not even run fsck (fsck.vfat, in my case). Tiago Saboga. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org