On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 11:27:35AM -0400, Max Hyre wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: >> The package usbmount might be what you need. > > The description of usbmount says: > > This package automatically mounts USB mass > storage devices (typically USB pens) when they > are plugged in, and unmounts them when they are > removed. > > Does this limit filesystems to FAT? FAT doesn't care if you rip it out > without doing any cleanup. If you've formatted your thumbdrive as an ext2 > filesystem, how can it be properly unmounted if you simply unplug it? > Won't that mean you have to run fsck every time you plug it in again?
maybe mount with sync instead of async, though mount warns of life-shortening possibilities with flash stuff. probably a good idea to go for noatime also to help coutneract that. Both of those would minimise the risk of damage -- so long as the current process was done, you could pull it. that just a guess. check man mount. A
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