On 2009-07-19_16:42:21, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Paul E Condon: > > > > I have several USB hard drives (ones with rotating machinery inside, > > not solid state 'disks'). From time to time I need to perform format > > maintenance on one of them. In order to do this, I look in /dev to see > > what device name has been assigned to the drive, umount it, and do > > whatever - e2fsck, tune2fs, etc. But when I'm finish doing > > maintenance, how to I remount it without pulling the USB cable, > > The actions you listed change neither the partition layout nor > filesystem UUIDs, so you should be able to just mount it again, using > the same device name or UUID as before.
But, for hal-mounted devices, the umount also deletes the mount-point. If I manually create a mount-point, which I must do prior to attempting a manual mount, then the next time hal mounts this HD, it creates a differently named mount point. I find this to be unclean. And, also a lot of typing. And periodic housekeeping to keep /media reasonably uncluttered. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
