OK, today I forgot to unmount this same external ntfs when shutting down
LinuxMint. As I am cursing myself, just before the screen went blank,
up pops a window saying something like: "unmounting volume".
Well guess what, I reboot, and have no broken links. Keep in mind I
have not made any chang
That's it, but I don't know if it's been compiled in your kernel. I run
Solaris so I'm not too much help in configuring it on Linux. I do know
that if you Google for "Linux automount" you'll find several resources
that can help you. I did much the same for Solaris.
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4mula1
Yes, so far it appears that when I unmount nicely there is no issue.
You understand I am not just turning off the external? I am waiting
for the PC to power off, then turning off the external. What you say
does make sense, just don't understand why it is an issue when I am
waiting to turn off t
This could be a good time to look into using automount. In a nutshell,
automount will mount/unmount a device (local or network) as needed.
You specify an inactivity timeout and when this time has elapsed the
device is unmounted. When something requests data from the device it
is mounted, until
mgh;211922 Wrote:
> I have been experimenting, and made some progress. Using LinuxMint.
>
> If I right-click and unmount the external drive before turning off the
> PC, everything stays good, no broken links.
>
> With Ubuntu I was not always able to unmount by right-clicking. With
> LinuxMint
Right, Linux (and Windows for that matter), like to buffer disk writes.
They save them up for a while and write when they have to, or when "too
much time" has gone by... Since disk activity tends to cluster (lots
of updates to nearby blocks at once), buffering speeds up access a ton
(that is the
I have been experimenting, and made some progress. Using LinuxMint.
If I right-click and unmount the external drive before turning off the
PC, everything stays good, no broken links.
With Ubuntu I was not always able to unmount by right-clicking. With
LinuxMint, I occasionally get two differen
Sorry, let me try again.
I make my links, then I turn off my PC, then turn off the external
drive. I reboot, turn on the external, and the links are broken, so I
have music that I can not play on my SB.
What seems strange to me, is the only links that are broken, are the
links to files on the e
I'm trying to understand the issue - why is this a problem? When you
shut off your external drive, it gets forcibly unmounted (Ubuntu, for
example, will complain when you do this). Links made to those files
will be broken because the destination is no longer mounted. But even
without the links,
Hi All,
Still playing around trying to get Linux to work for me. Using
LinuxMint, and really like it.
Most of what I have done before scanning my library is made links to
files and folders. It appears as though anytime I turn off my external
hard drive, all the links I have made to files on it
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