On 2009-07-20_22:20:59, Tiago Saboga wrote: > Paulo E Condon: > > I think that the device file is NOT removed. This is what I > > observe. When I umount /dev/sdxn, the mount-point /media/MMMPPP is > > removed, and the device file is remains. This is GOOD because the > > reason for umount is so that I can run e2fsck. So, from observation, a > > supposition held by some is false. > > It was not a supposition, but what I see here. I am sorry, I think I was > not clear enough when I entered this thread: I have a similar problem, > but it is not really the same thing. I will do more tests soon (I am not > at the same machine now), but after I had "removed safely" the device, > in kde, I had no more device file - or better, just the main one > (/dev/sdf), and both file and fsck.vfat complained that the file was not > available (I don't know what the exact wording was). And so I could not > even run fsck (fsck.vfat, in my case). > > Tiago Saboga.
Sorry Tiago for a comment about your observation. I had interpreted your remark as a speculation about how hal works, not an observation of actual behavior of your system. I apologize. I have what I think to be a solution, but the reason it works is now suspect because it could not work for you, whose system differs from mine in some mystery aspect. What happens if, in the future, a Gnome developer, changes whatever makes it work for me into whatever doesn't work for you? And there is Andrei's system on which device-file, mount-point and icon are all preserved --- but not in Gnome. Perhaps we should both investigate migrating to Xfce. -- 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
