On 06/04/12 13:40, Polytropon wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 13:15:33 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote:
>> Can you tell me where any of this is documented?
>> I can't find squat about gamin.
>> no man page and no docs in the /usr/local tree
>
> Welcome to the realm of modern software and its aversion
> agai
On Mon, 4 Jun 2012, Gary Aitken wrote:
On 06/04/12 08:15, Warren Block wrote:
gamin opens the directory (of the newly-mounted device) so it can check for new
files being created or files being renamed, and then notify the window manager,
which updates the user's desktop. The open makes the d
On 06/04/12 02:28, Lars Eighner wrote:
>>> This almost always means someone (i.e. you) is sitting in the directory.
>>> If you tried this while su'ed and the un-su'ed you were still in the
>>> directory /mnt/goflex, you'd get this message. This may also happen if
>>> someone (i.e. you) is in the d
On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 13:15:33 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote:
> Can you tell me where any of this is documented?
> I can't find squat about gamin.
> no man page and no docs in the /usr/local tree
Welcome to the realm of modern software and its aversion
against documentation. :-)
In such cases, you often
On 06/04/12 08:15, Warren Block wrote:
> gamin opens the directory (of the newly-mounted device) so it can check for
> new files being created or files being renamed, and then notify the window
> manager, which updates the user's desktop. The open makes the device in-use,
> preventing an unmoun
As nearly as I can tell, I don't have anything pointing at that drive.
Questions:
1. What does the "No such file or directory" mean from mkdir?
It's a relative dir name, and I'm sitting at a valid dir.
no NTFS driver for FreeBSD is really well done. fusefs based ntfs driver
in my opinion
On Mon, 4 Jun 2012, Gary Aitken wrote:
On 06/03/12 21:05, Polytropon wrote:
Maybe the ganim "lock" is regarding a device file? Not sure
about that, I'm not using it here.
I'm not sure what the deal is here, but exiting X does solve the
problem. I didn't try just killing the environment by
On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 01:56:49 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote:
> On 06/03/12 21:05, Polytropon wrote:
> > Maybe the ganim "lock" is regarding a device file? Not sure
> > about that, I'm not using it here.
>
> I'm not sure what the deal is here, but exiting X does solve
> the problem. I didn't try just ki
On Sun, 3 Jun 2012, Gary Aitken wrote:
This almost always means someone (i.e. you) is sitting in the directory.
If you tried this while su'ed and the un-su'ed you were still in the
directory /mnt/goflex, you'd get this message. This may also happen if
someone (i.e. you) is in the directory on an
On 06/03/12 21:05, Polytropon wrote:
> Good idea. However, you can do efficient backups of "Windows"
> data by using the "ntfsprogs" tools. This makes sure they can
> even be read under non-"Windows" systems.
I'll look into that.
>>> if you are using xfce4, then you have most likely got gamin
>
On Sun, 03 Jun 2012 20:28:28 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote:
> > Consider NTFS being part of the problem, i. e. problems with the
> > _ntfs file system driver provided by the OS (as it seems you're
> > not using FUSE tools here - there are "fusefs-ntfs" and "ntfsprogs"
> > in the ports collection which m
Combining several responses to save traffic; thanks all
>> Something I'm overlooking here and a lot of questions I can't seem to find
>> the answers to...
>>
>> I mounted a usb drive
>> mount -t ntfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/goflex
>>
>> Then, as nearly as I can remember...
>> I then poked around a bit us
On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Gary Aitken wrote:
> Something I'm overlooking here and a lot of questions I can't seem to find
> the answers to...
>
> I mounted a usb drive
> mount -t ntfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/goflex
>
> Then, as nearly as I can remember...
> I then poked around a bit using the xfc
On Sun, 3 Jun 2012, Gary Aitken wrote:
6. And finally, any idea why umount says the device is busy?
xfce uses gamin to scan for new files and directories, but it causes
just this problem. Edit /usr/local/etc/gamin/gaminrc and set it to poll
the device directory:
poll /mnt/*
_
Gary Aitken wrote:
>
> Something I'm overlooking here and a lot of questions I can't seem to find
> the answers to...
>
> I mounted a usb drive
> mount -t ntfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/goflex
>
> Then, as nearly as I can remember...
> I then poked around a bit using the xfce4 browser.
> I tried to
On Sun, 3 Jun 2012, Gary Aitken wrote:
Something I'm overlooking here and a lot of questions I can't seem to find
the answers to...
I mounted a usb drive
mount -t ntfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/goflex
Then, as nearly as I can remember...
I then poked around a bit using the xfce4 browser.
I tried to m
Hi Gary,
if you are using xfce4, then you have most likely got gamin running as well,
this caused the same problem for me when trying to umount an external USB
drive
I resolved my umount problem by including the -f switch
#umount -f /mnt/goflex
Dave Whytcross
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On Sun, 03 Jun 2012 08:59:11 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote:
> Something I'm overlooking here and a lot of questions I can't
> seem to find the answers to...
>
> I mounted a usb drive
> mount -t ntfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/goflex
>
> Then, as nearly as I can remember...
> I then poked around a bit using
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