F7 KDE USB Disk/Memory Stick Umounting
John Austin
ja at jaa.org.uk
Fri Jun 29 13:33:33 UTC 2007
On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 09:10 -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
> John Austin wrote:
>
> > Thus the USB memory stick has to be removed and re-inserted to regain access.
> >
> > For the USB disk you can just click on the icon
> >
> > 1. Why are the two "identical" devices treated differently?
> >
> > 2. Is there an easy method of changing all USB sticks
> > to act the same as the USB Disk?
> >
>
> Actually I just had this same problem, granted I was on Gentoo when this
> happened, but I'd be willing to bet it's the same or similar problem.
> With KDE it is capable of mounting those devices on it's own, so in some
> cases hal/udev and KDE are competing against one another for mounting
> the disk. The symptom in my case was that the drive kept moving mount
> points from sda1 all the way down to sde1 over the course of an hour.
> In my case the way to fix this was to turn of ivman so that it wouldn't
> compete against KDE's kioslaves when mounting those USB drives I have.
>
> HTH.
>
>
>
Many thanks for the reply
I have had a look round and cannot find any reference
on my machine (F7) to ivman
Google did bring up a reference that said
"KDE 3.5 automount is worse than ivman on 3.4"
so I have a feeling this isn't the cause
Regards
John
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