<div>On 02/11/05, Robert Locke <<a href="mailto:lists@ralii.com">lists@ralii.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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 -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list </a> </blockquote></div> Windows does in fact NOT do this automatically. They display a warning about not removing the software until you have unloaded it, then you may "unplug it safely". They have quite a dialogue system happening about this. It is easier in Linux: you just click the icon to mount, then click again to unmount.