On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 16:21 +0100, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> >> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:55:32AM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
> >>> I'm just looking into the removable device issue for freebsd. I can
> >>> see its easy enough to auto mount a removable device (although I
> >>> could use some help getting
>> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:55:32AM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
>>> I'm just looking into the removable device issue for freebsd. I can
>>> see its easy enough to auto mount a removable device (although I
>>> could use some help getting sd/xd devices working with my card
>>> reader), but the removal se
Am Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:40:39 +1000 schrieb Da Rock
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> That last point would only occur if the device was still being written
> to- right?
No.
Removing a mounted device will cause a panic, writes pending or not.
Maybe look at the emulators/mtools port, which gives you access
On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 14:14 +0100, Roland Smith wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 09:55:37PM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
>
> > > > I'm just looking into the removable device issue for freebsd. I can see
> > > > its easy enough to auto mount a removable device (although I could use
> > > > some help gett
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 09:55:37PM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
> > > I'm just looking into the removable device issue for freebsd. I can see
> > > its easy enough to auto mount a removable device (although I could use
> > > some help getting sd/xd devices working with my card reader), but the
> > > remo
On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 08:43 +0100, Roland Smith wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:55:32AM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
> > I'm just looking into the removable device issue for freebsd. I can see
> > its easy enough to auto mount a removable device (although I could use
> > some help getting sd/xd devic
What about a "Safely Remove Hardware"-style icon on your desktop,
which could simply run a script to unmount (with force if the user has
it open somewhere).
-Patrick
On 20/03/2008, Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:55:32AM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
> > I'm just loo
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:55:32AM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
> I'm just looking into the removable device issue for freebsd. I can see
> its easy enough to auto mount a removable device (although I could use
> some help getting sd/xd devices working with my card reader), but the
> removal seems to come
I'm just looking into the removable device issue for freebsd. I can see
its easy enough to auto mount a removable device (although I could use
some help getting sd/xd devices working with my card reader), but the
removal seems to come unstuck.
I have some barely literates on my systems, so I do ne
Hey all,
I've noticed that a 'umount /mnt/portable' properly umounts the drive
like it should, but when I hold the drive in my hand and give it a
very gentle horizontal spin with my wrist, the reading head /
platter.. something, sounds loose, as if the arm wasn't properly
docked.
Is there any com
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dan Strick writes:
>You can't unmount the root file system. Even the mere notion makes
>me feel a little queasy.
There is an explicit test in the kernel that stops you from unmounting
the root file system, I guess as an anti foot shooting measure. If
you disable th
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:55:22AM -0800, Dan Strick wrote:
> (Why did you *want* to unmount the root? To fsck it or dump it?)
Forcing it to be remounted read-only may help in such cases.
wopr:~# mount -u -o ro -f /
wopr:~# mount
/dev/da0s1a on / (ufs, local, read-only)
/dev/da0s1f on /home (uf
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>
> Is this the only way to unmount the root filesystem:
>
> umount -a
>
> When I try "umount /", I get this error:
>
> umount: unmount of / failed: Invalid argument
>
> The manpage doesn't give any hints on why that argument is invalid...
>>>
>From
>
>
> Is this the only way to unmount the root filesystem:
>
> umount -a
>
> When I try "umount /", I get this error:
>
> umount: unmount of / failed: Invalid argument
>
> The manpage doesn't give any hints on why that argument is invalid...
You can't un mount root.
You can only reassert the
Is this the only way to unmount the root filesystem:
umount -a
When I try "umount /", I get this error:
umount: unmount of / failed: Invalid argument
The manpage doesn't give any hints on why that argument is invalid...
Dru
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