> I don't think there's any way to have something auto-unmount There certainly is – udev has been unmounting unplugged drives for many years. It's done by default. <div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Sep 21, 2015, 23:10 Paul D. DeRocco <<a href="mailto:pderocco@ix.netcom.com">pderocco@ix.netcom.com</a>> wrote: </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">> From: Umut Tezduyar Lindskog [mailto:<a href="mailto:umut@tezduyar.com" target="_blank">umut@tezduyar.com</a>] > > I am not sure if automount is really the right way to go. In the end, > your automount path will fail if your device is not plugged in. A little experimenting showed you're right. > You could always use udev rules (ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS}='media-ext.mount') > to mount the volume. > <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.device.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.device.html</a> I was thinking about udev, too, but I don't think there's any way to have something auto-unmount. But I'm overcomplicating things. In my system, the only accesses made to this external flash drive are in response to a user command. So the simpler solution is just to have my application mount and unmount the drive, instead of trying to get the operating system to do it. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paul mailto:<a href="mailto:pderocco@ix.netcom.com" target="_blank">pderocco@ix.netcom.com</a> _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank">systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel</a> </blockquote></div>