Subject: Re: Detaching live sd devices
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@embedtronics.fi>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/25/2005 22:35:10
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 09:32:27PM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> >I agree. While I think the user should have to go through a manual step, I
> >think that we can make it easy for them. The "eject" command will do an
> >unmount if you pass it the -f option. So it shouldn't be hard to create a
> >tool that can help users eject media. :-)
> 
> That only works if you force users to use it, by hardware.
> Until then, uninitiated users will just yank out the usb stick when the 
> shell prompt's back, and that's it.

Or the USB cable of a digicam or the firewire cable of a portable drive or..

  -jm