auto umount usb devices?

[Robert Locke]

On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 12:58 -0500, Tony Nelson wrote:
> At 1:14 PM +0000 11/2/05, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >how do I configure gnome-volume-manager to auto-umount USB devices when
> >they're
> >unplugged?
> >
> >I understand that pulling ext2 file systems without umounting is a bad
> >idea, but it should be feasible with ext3 and vfat file system that
> >have been mounted synchronously.
> >
> >I don't really mind this myself, but I have a hard time explaining my
> >parents the fine points of (dis)mounting filesystems. I believe
> >Windows XP handles unplug events automatically.
> 
> You want the OS to flush its buffers to the disk after the disk is
> unplugged?  Uhh, how?

Never used it, but are we talking about the "sync" or "dirsync" mount
option here?

--Rob