The "umount - device is busy" issue: wbumount

[Anthony Metcalf]

On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 14:31:06 +0200
nf <nf2 at scheinwelt.at> wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 13:34, Anthony Metcalf wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 13:04:18 +0200
> > nf <nf2 at scheinwelt.at> wrote:
> > 
> > > http://www.scheinwelt.at/~norbertf/wbumount/
> > 
> > One comment, if the mountpoints are updated when things are
> > hotplugged why do you have to specify a mountpoint when starting
> > wbumount? Or am I just reading wrong. 
> 
> the moutpoint-argument of wbumount-gtk is optional. it could be used
> to run wbumount-gtk from other applications (like filemanagers which
> fail to umount a device).

So the user never calls wbumount? only wbumount-gtk?

> wbumount only lists devices mounted by the current user ("user" option
> in /etc/fstab). hotplug devices are always mounted by root - i guess -
> there is now way to umount them manually anyway. on my mdk10 hotplug
> uses supermount - i don't know if this is always the case. how do
> other linuxes (redhat?) deal with hotplug devices? do they just create
> a"user" mountpoint in fstab - or do they mount right away?


At the moment i'm using udev/dbus/hal/gnome-volume-manager (in fluxbox)
for all my hotplugging needs, I will see tonight if you app supports
this. :)
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