[Lilux-help] usb/firewire mounting trouble

[Mr PHP]

On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 17:57:30 +0200
Frédéric Becker <frederic at anesec.lu> wrote:

> hi there , 
> when mounting an usb device, the device is shown as /dev/sda1
> (according to cat /proc/partitions). so far so god.
> but when unpluggins the device without unmounting it, a problem
> appears: when replugging it, the device turns to be /dev/sdb1,
> sdc1...an so on. how can i fix this knowing that most distibutions
> have this problem. i personally use suse 9.1 and disabled the subfs
> system is the hotplug detection, which caused serious performance
> troubles on my laptop. what can i do?

Hi Frédéric,

well I have zero experience with suse, but I think the root of your
problem lies in that the device is not automatically unmounted when
hotplug detects the removal of the device, probably because it is used
by some process. One solution would be finding the script that calls the
umount command and enter a -f flag to force the umount. Good luck!

Gergo

> 
> thanks 
> 
> Frédéric
> 
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