On 2009-07-19_18:57:40, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun,19.Jul.09, 08:11:21, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I have no objection to the status of hal as a required part of a > > standard desktop installation, but I do have a question as to how best > > to deal with a peculiar situation. > > > > 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, > > waiting a while, and reinserting the cable? Is there a console command > > that I can type that avoids the extra wear on the fragile little > > connectors and plugs? I'm looking for something that retriggers the > > look-up of volume label and the creation of a mount-point in /media as > > was there before I started mucking about. > > This thread seems interesting
Correction: This thread *is* interesting > > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/re-detectmount-usb-hard-drive-623089/ > > (the first hit when I googled: hal redetect devices) > The solution is in the parted package. Thanks, Andrei. -- 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
