--- Randall R Schulz
Martin,
That's odd. I keep symlinks in / for each of the removable media devices in my system, which include one flash RAM stick. It's /media mount point is similar to the one you report and is the same every time the device is mounted, naturally, since otherwise the technique would not really work.
What you say really doesn't make sense to me, since a symbolic link has no effect on its target. Are you sure you got the link pointed in the right direction? The "ln" command would be "ln -s /media/... shortName", not the reverse.
Randall, this is what I did: 1. insert memory stick 2. cd /home/user/Documents 3. created sym link ln -s /media/usb-storage<bla bla> ./usbflash 4. opened up konqueror in /home/user/Documents/usbflash 5. closed konqueror 6. removed memory stick 7. got the error in /var/log/messages Jan 7 21:53:58 tp600e /etc/hotplug/block.agent[4779]: umount: /media/usb-storage-3563BF09143714061204:0:0:0p1: device is busy Jan 7 21:53:58 tp600e /etc/hotplug/block.agent[4779]: umount: /media/usb-storage-3563BF09143714061204:0:0:0p1: device is busy 8. inserted memory stick back 9. got the following msgs after opening konqueror as above Jan 7 21:58:33 tp600e /etc/hotplug/block.agent[5219]: new block device /block/sdb/sdb1 Jan 7 21:58:42 tp600e /etc/hotplug/block.agent[5219]: mount by-path/usb-storage-3563BF09143714061204:0:0:0p1 Jan 7 21:59:00 tp600e /USR/SBIN/CRON[5499]: (root) CMD ( rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly) Jan 7 21:59:03 tp600e kernel: scsi0 (0:0): rejecting I/O to dead device Jan 7 21:59:03 tp600e kernel: FAT: Directory bread(block 497) failed Jan 7 21:59:03 tp600e kernel: scsi0 (0:0): rejecting I/O to dead device Jan 7 21:59:03 tp600e kernel: FAT: Directory bread(block 498) failed Jan 7 21:59:03 tp600e kernel: scsi0 (0:0): rejecting I/O to dead device Jan 7 21:59:03 tp600e kernel: FAT: Directory bread(block 499) failed Any idea why this is happening? Thx, Martin __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail