Fails to umount

Paul Ionescu i_p_a_u_l at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 27 15:07:10 PST 2005


Hi,

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:59:43 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:

> Uhm, unmount -l could fail. Theoretically at least. Another thing is
> that you shouldn't just yank out devices without unmounting them, but,
> yeah, I agree that a system should survice this. So does all the
> interaction designers I've spoken with.

unmount -l is working just fine from the command line after that.
If I did not write anything to the device, or is mounted ro (like a
CDROM/DVD is), I will just yank out / eject the CD/DVD, because it's
faster, and yes, the system should survive it.

Thanks,
Paul

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