On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 4:09 AM, Koenraad Lelong <k.lelong@ace-electronics.be> wrote:
Op 10-06-11 09:24, Per Jessen schreef:
Koenraad Lelong wrote:
Hi,
I have an e-sata disk connected to my laptop, to store data I don't always need when I'm not at the office. What is the most convenient way to mount that device's partitions ? For the moment I log in as root and mount it manually. I'm studying autofs to simplify things. Are there other ways ?
Using udev is another option. Actually I would expect some support (in opensuse) for that already - removable media are not exactly uncommon.
Hi Per,
According to the manual of the drive e-sata is not plug-and-play. The computer must be shut down to add or remove the drive.
I forgot to tell I'm using OS 11.4.
Regards,
Koenraad Lelong.
I believe it safest to say eSata with Linux is warm plug. That is the cables can be hot plugged, but there is not any auto-mounting or more importantly auto-unmounting. openSUSE offers 2 basic ways to make it as robust as it can in a hot-plug way. 1) vfat filesystems can be mounted with the flush option or something like that. With that option you don't have the delay of full sync operation, but cache is flushed in a timely manner. So if you have a thumb drive that gets pulled shortly after writing to it, you should be safe as long as you wait for the activity lights to quit blinking. 2) If you don't want to use vfat, then you either need to manually unmount or you need to mount with the sync option. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org