On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Björn König wrote: > Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote: > >> 1. Don't do that > > It concerns not only USB drives, but any kind of removable media, even floppy > disks. A lot of people tend to remove floppy disks without unmounting the > filesystem before and I think it's unacceptable to let users reboot their > machine if they did this mistake. You won't hear any arguments from anyone on this one. The itch is there for someone to scratch... >> (If you're going to do it, try umount -f). > > ... which causes the death of a machine if you do this twice. Right. > I prepared myself to step into the source code next month to eliminate this > annoying behaviour. I would gladly do so myself, if I had the time. Alas, I am currently involved in a number of projects which are chewing up all of my time... :( Regards, Andy /* Andre Guibert de Bruet * 6f43 6564 7020 656f 2e74 4220 7469 6a20 */ /* Code poet / Sysadmin * 636f 656b 2e79 5320 7379 6461 696d 2e6e */ /* GSM: +1 734 846 8758 * 5520 494e 2058 6c73 7565 6874 002e 0000 */ /* WWW: siliconlandmark.com * Tormenting bytes since 1980. */Received on Tue Jul 05 2005 - 03:23:33 UTC
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