Re: Automatically unmonuting an idle partition

2003-12-29 Thread Oded Arbel
I'm working on tightening the security of my laptop (installed with RH9). I'm trying to figure out a way to automatically unmount a partition that has been standing idle for some time. 'Idle' means, of course, that no reads or writes were made from/to that partition. Any hints on

Re: Automatically unmonuting an idle partition

2003-12-29 Thread Diego Iastrubni
, 29 2003, 15:42,Oded Arbel: I'm working on tightening the security of my laptop (installed with RH9). I'm trying to figure out a way to automatically unmount a partition that has been standing idle for some time. 'Idle' means, of course, that no reads or writes were made

Re: Automatically unmonuting an idle partition

2003-12-29 Thread Oded Arbel
29 2003, 18:43,Diego Iastrubni: , 29 2003, 15:42,Oded Arbel: I'm working on tightening the security of my laptop (installed with RH9). I'm trying to figure out a way to automatically unmount a partition that has been standing idle for some time. 'Idle' means, of

Re: Automatically unmonuting an idle partition

2003-12-29 Thread Diego Iastrubni
, 29 2003, 18:50,Oded Arbel: When he said he wanted to automaticly unmount idling partitions, I was under the impression that he also wanted them to automaticly remount when required, because this sounds to me like a useful feature, but I may have been mistaken. read the first sentence :

Re: Automatically unmonuting an idle partition

2003-12-29 Thread Oded Arbel
29 2003, 19:13,Diego Iastrubni: , 29 2003, 18:50, Oded Arbel: When he said he wanted to automaticly unmount idling partitions, I was under the impression that he also wanted them to automaticly remount when required, because this sounds to me like a useful feature, but I may

Re: Automatically unmonuting an idle partition

2003-12-29 Thread Sharon Dagan
This partition is actually encrypted. If the machine is stolen while powered on and the partition is mounted, automatic unmounting will (hopefully) save the day. Oded Arbel wrote: 29 2003, 19:13,Diego Iastrubni: , 29 2003, 18:50, Oded Arbel: When he said he wanted to

Re: Automatically unmonuting an idle partition

2003-12-29 Thread Oded Arbel
29 2003, 23:53,Sharon Dagan: This partition is actually encrypted. If the machine is stolen while powered on and the partition is mounted, automatic unmounting will (hopefully) save the day. Oh.. One thing simple that I would have done is put in a cronjob that runs every 5 minutes or

Re: Automatically unmonuting an idle partition

2003-12-29 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 11:53:36PM +0200, Sharon Dagan wrote: This partition is actually encrypted. If the machine is stolen while powered on and the partition is mounted, automatic unmounting will (hopefully) save the day. Don't have any experience with encrypted partitions but it sounds

Automatically unmonuting an idle partition

2003-12-28 Thread Sharon Dagan
Hi all, I'm working on tightening the security of my laptop (installed with RH9). I'm trying to figure out a way to automatically unmount a partition that has been standing idle for some time. 'Idle' means, of course, that no reads or writes were made from/to that partition. Any hints on

Re: Automatically unmonuting an idle partition

2003-12-28 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Sharon Dagan wrote: Hi all, I'm working on tightening the security of my laptop (installed with RH9). I'm trying to figure out a way to automatically unmount a partition that has been standing idle for some time. 'Idle' means, of course, that no reads or writes were